well, I like seeing DE just fine, as long as it really means DElaware!
The "Toastmaster Award" goes to the guy who added a long "GO PACKERS..."
message to his exchange!
He made the "YO!" guy seem cute...
73! - jeff wk6i
(ps Jim tnx qsl!)
At 02:18 PM 1/5/2004, Michael Furfari wrote:
>Thats a good point Jim, also since I am a 3 call and live in PA I never send
>599 PA PA DE K3FH, just in case someone interprets the DE as
>Delaware.....figure DE not needed in RTTY any way during an exchange.
>
>Mike K3FH
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
>
>> Two guys I worked (out of 220 or so) sent their report like this:
>>
>> AD1C UR 599 IN IL IL <end>
>>
>> Why send the word IN? In one case (above) it was a W9 station, and I
>wasn't
>> sure whether he was in INdiana or ILlinois - IL bean IN 2-to-1. The other
>one
>> was more obvious.
>>
>> This is not the toastmasters! Just get the information across as succintly
>as
>> possible.
>>
>> 73 - Jim AD1C
>>
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Jeff Stai jds@twistedoak.com
Twisted Oak Winery http://www.twistedoak.com/
Rocketry Org. of CA http://www.rocstock.org/
Amateur Radio WK6I
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