Sounds like the beginnings of a trip to Las Vegas to me!
Barrie Smith wrote:
> Several years ago, when I was running 375 watts on 6M mobile, my wife and I
> drove to a rare grid-square here in Montana to pass the grid out during a
> contest.
>
> We came upon a bar out in the middle of nowhere and we stopped to get a
> coke. While my wife was in the bar I called CQ. Very soon she came
> bursting out and yelled: "Get out of here, Quick!".
>
> Well, while she was in the bar, she heard me calling CQ on the speakers in
> the gambling machines. She couldn't hear the exact words, but she
> understood the cadence.
>
> The reason she ran out so quickly was not so much hearing me, but that
> several of the gambling machines started playing music and sirens and giving
> out big jackpots.
>
> She said that the bartender was just standing behind the bar with his mouth
> hanging open.
>
> That was, for him, an expensive CQ.
>
> I've often wondered if I couldn't pull that trick with the help of someone
> inside playing the machines.
>
> 73, Barrie, W7ALW
>
>
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