Nope, I saw him too.
I also saw someone sending "Indiana", which I think is a reaction to
such things.
Dual receive works well, and helps with ambiguities, such as this.
It also helps when you want to work someone who's reversed.
73, doug
From: "Barry " <w2up@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 22:28:20 -0000
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Maybe he sent AD1C UR 599 IL IL IL and some QRM/N caused one of the
Ls to print as N.
Barry W2UP
On 5 Jan 2004 Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> Two guys I worked (out of 220 or so) sent their report like this:
>
> AD1C UR 599 IN IL IL <end>
>
> Why send the word IN? In one case (above) it was a W9 station, and I
> wasn't sure whether he was in INdiana or ILlinois - IL bean IN 2-to-1.
> The other one was more obvious.
>
> This is not the toastmasters! Just get the information across as
> succintly as possible.
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
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