Especially when a rare DX will ask for WEST COAST ONLY and IL, MO, TN,
LA, TX, etc, etc, answer.
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Alan Zack
Amateur Radio Station K7ACZ
Official USCG Auxiliary Comm Station
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Delta Rocket Quality Engineer, The Boeing Company, Retired
Aviation Chief Warrant Officer, U.S. Coast Guard, Retired
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Geiger" <n5ten@yahoo.com>
To: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@gmail.com>; "CQ-Contest Reflector"
<cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Where Do We Get Off Doing This?
> And if you look at some of the geography surveys being
> conducted, many US hams might not know that Missouri,
> Mississippi, and Mountana are actually part of the US!
>
> 73s John AA5JG
>
> --- Ward Silver <hwardsil@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > What makes us think that DX hams we contact know
>> that Michigan is MI and
>> > Missouri is MO and Mississippi is MS?
>>
>> Heck, what makes us think that US hams know? :-)
>>
>> Sweepstakes and NAQP logs are *full* of goofs - MI
>> gets entered for
>> MInnesota and MIchigan and MIssouri and MIssissippi,
>> MO for MOntana and
>> MissOuri, MA for MAssachusetts and MAine. Etc etc
>> etc.
>>
>> The same concern is also there for many state QSO
>> parties. It is incumbent
>> on the station receiving the exchange to enter it
>> into the log correctly
>> even though it may be helpful for the station giving
>> out the exchange to
>> help them understand it.
>>
>> 73, Ward N0AX
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