No worries Gary. I too though the AL9 station should have been in IL or IN.
It was early in the contest and I thought he was giving a serial number by
mistake like many others that were doing that.
And N1MM did not show a new multiplier either.
73
Jim W7RY
--------------------------------------------------
From: "Jerry Flanders" <jeflanders@comcast.net>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 8:58 PM
To: "Gary AL9A" <al9a@mtaonline.net>
Cc: <rtty@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Post Roundup comments
> 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
>
> _______________________________________________
> RTTY mailing list
> RTTY@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/rtty
>
>
>
> -----
> No virus found in this message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
> Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3372 - Release Date: 01/10/11
>
_______________________________________________
RTTY mailing list
RTTY@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/rtty
|