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Re: [CQ-Contest] 'TEST' or not to 'TEST'

To: "Alan C. Zack" <k7acz@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 'TEST' or not to 'TEST'
From: Ed Parish K1EP <k1ep@arrl.net>
Reply-to: k1ep@arrl.net
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:01:59 -0500
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At 2/27/04 09:51 PM, Alan C. Zack wrote:
>Ed Parish K1EP wrote:
>As you point out in #4, there is very little time wasted in sending
>TEST (or NV as someone pointed out).
>
>Maybe that's why I got several STATE? returns.  I was S&P'ing stations
>calling CQ, TEST, etc, and would answer with K7ACZ 599 NV.  Think I
>only got one QRZ? or CALL?.  Got several STATE?  Did they think NV
>(Nevada) was TEST.  

Could be.  I hadn't heard of using NV instead of TEST until today.  But, if I 
were you, I would program in a half space  between the N and V or something 
that so it doesn't sound like a fast TEST.


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