Oh yes. RG8U was a classic, as was RG8X, 6L6GT, and a few others.
OTOH, remember a few years back a particular call from Senegal? 6V6U? Only
that call WAS real!
And with that, back to our regularly scheduled kvetching, already in
progress... <g>
73, ron w3wn
On 02/22/16, David Siddall wrote:
WFWL! I "caught" RG8U long ago when it was a new call. Joke was on me.
73, Dave K3ZJ
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Tom Hammond <thammond@chartermi.net> wrote:
> Well, I admit that I fell prey to this, twice! www.qrz.com/db/gj0ke comes
> up
> blank. Geesh...
>
> I worked "them" on 15M at 18:04 and on 20M at 20:59. That means that "they"
> were operating for at least 3 hours handing out bogus points. Who would do
> such a thing? Why?
>
> I passed through Jersey on a business trip once, and working them reminded
> me of it. I wondered to myself why Jersey could run a KW while the rest of
> the UK can only run 400W. I was had, but good.
>
> I wonder if I would have caught ID0IOT or DU0PE (both poor examples, I
> admit) in my oblivious state.
>
> I'm feeling seriously disappointed by my fraternal brethren, and in myself
> a
> bit.
>
> Tom
> K8BKM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Ron
> Notarius W3WN
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 12:03 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Working Split In A Contest Is Verboten!
>
> Speaking of things that are "verboten" in a contest (or should be)...
>
>
> Under the category of WFWL, anyone else raise an eyebrow over "GJ0KE" ? I
> caught him (or whomever it was using that call) on 15 CW on Saturday. The
> call seemed just a little too "cute", and when I heard him sending a power
> level of KW instead of 400, I smelled a rat.
>
>
> Like I said, WFWL, but I suspect that anyone who worked that station is
> going to be down a Q and a mult, once the log checking starts, due to no
> fault of their own.
>
>
> 73, ron w3wn
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