I pretty much stick to using my own name, though some years back I did use the
(first) name of a local high school kid who was in the news. He wasn’t well
known, so I did have to do a lot of repeats.
It so happens that we share the same name, though that name is my first name
and his last name. And he’s a pretty good basketball player.
73 - James K8MR
> On Mar 16, 2018, at 8:40 PM, DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL <kr2q@optimum.net> wrote:
>
> I remember one year I got wild. I used the name Throckmorton. It almost
> always got a repeat request.
> Some guys never did get it.
>
> I remember calling W3XU, an old schoolmate from U Penn when he was at Wharton
> and I was at Penn
> Vet school, at W3ABT and later N3KZ. I called him very qrq and gave him the
> name. He was the only
> one who didn't skip a beat. He came right back and said Thanks Throcky. LOL
>
> After the contest, some guys told me that it was too long to fit into their
> logging s/w.
>
> Other guys, every now and then, will remind me of the time I was
> Throckmorton.
> Sort of like when we used to have the DASH on 75m. Lots of OT guys remember
> one my exchanges: 599 soup [signal report and what you had for dinner].
> And I remember K1KI's cat's name. heh heh heh
>
> One year I used the name Zdo, which is the first 3 letters of my work email
> address.
> That got lots of repeat requests too. Hey...contesting is fun, right!
>
> de Doug KR2Q
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