I don't think I agree, though I wouldn't characterize it as "stupidity."
Seriously, there are people who get on and make their first QSO ever and plenty
who don't have any idea what section they're in. I think I even worked one one
time who didn't know what state he was in. Given that context, it's completely
plausible to me that someone in San Diego, which does begin with the letters
S-D after all, would give S-D as his section, never considering that maybe
South Dakota -- a state which I suppose some of these guys may have never heard
of -- uses those letters. And I really get some dumbfounded silence sometimes
when people ask for a repeat on my section (thinking "state" I suppose) and I
give PR. Clearly, they have no idea what PR might be.
73 - Rich, KE3Q
----- Original Message -----
From: Rex Maner<mailto:k7qq@netzero.net>
To: N6KI Dennis Vernacchia<mailto:n6ki_73@sbcglobal.net> ; RICHARD
BOYD<mailto:ke3q@msn.com>
Cc: cq-contest<mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] section names, SD v SDG
> I doubt anyone in San Diego would be so stupid as to send SD.
NOW NOW They already have sent ??6XXX for a call that should be the
answer after all
Quack
----- Original Message -----
From: "N6KI Dennis Vernacchia"
<n6ki_73@sbcglobal.net<mailto:n6ki_73@sbcglobal.net>>
To: "RICHARD BOYD" <ke3q@msn.com<mailto:ke3q@msn.com>>
Cc: "cq-contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com<mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com>>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] section names, SD v SDG
> Any contestor, worth working, in San Diego, knows to send SDG
>
> Unless some real newbies showed up, I doubt anyone in San Diego
> would be so stupid as to send SD
>
> 73, Dennis N6KI
> Sandy Eggo
>
> RICHARD BOYD wrote:
>> I had a number of "sixes" send their section as SD. I automatically
>> converted that to SDG until I realized that one of the sixes I was
>> working probably was, I recalled, in South Dakota, so I logged it as SD,
>> which is what he sent. Now I wonder about those couple before that that
>> had send SD -- were they in South Dakota or in San Diego. Oh well. If I
>> lose a couple QSOs that won't kill me. In hindsight, I realize whenever
>> I hear SD sent and it's not a zero, and particularly if it's a six, I
>> have to ask for clarification, "SDG?"
>>
>> 73 - Rich, KE3Q
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