One of those clueless guys was me. I didn't realize the AL was Alaska
at first. I must have been one of the later ones to ask because you
already had the "alaska DX" macro ready to go for me.
You were my ONLY Alaska QSO, IIRC. Thanks for the Q and the mult.
Jerry W4UK
At 06:44 PM 1/10/2011, you wrote:
>I also had a station give me 'NNJ' as his state. Rather than get into an
>exchange over the proper report I just entered 'NJ' in the log. I also had
>several stations ask "STATE? STATE?"after I sent them a serial number so
>apparently they either did not read the rules or the '9' in AL9A threw them
>off. You would think getting a number instead of a state would be a clue!
>Of course the important thing to look for is the 'L' which is only in AK
>calls.
>
>All of my WL macros were already programmed with contest messages so I had
>to keyboard "AK is DX" a few times. In frustration I finally programmed a
>memory location in my microKEYER II to say "ALASKA ALASKA DX DX". Then when
>I got a request for STATE? or QTH? I just reached over to the MKII keyboard
>and hit the proper F key. The only bummer here was I had to shut down WL
>for a few minutes while I created the macro for the MKII. If left running
>WL interferes with saving the macro in Router.
>
>73,
>Gary AL9A
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