On 17 Feb 2003 at 15:18, John Laney wrote:
> The ninth QSO was with D88S. I knew he was a Korean station on or near
> Antarctica and the logging program thought he was in Korea.
I thought he was awfully loud for HL....guess I worked him off the
back of the antenna!
> I guessed it was Antarctica, so entered D88=CE9 and that cured the
> problem, or so I thought. Very late in the contest, I worked LZ0A in
> So. Shetlands and, after the contest, figured out that D88S was also
> So. Shetlands, so my country total is actually one less than what we
> had posted at the end of the contest.
Dang, I lost one too then!
Next thing you're going to tell me is that S21YY wasn't in
Bangladesh....
> 2005Z: Missed 4U1ITU for a mult on 21081. AA4GA was calling him too,
> but guess he was just going QRT.
I assume they QSYed...I worked 'em on 10, 20 and 40. 15 was the
weakest I heard them...I suppose because it was as late as it
was...they sent "GA?" once or twice before John got there, but by
then it was just too late. I don't recall that they've ever been
able to receive really well...maybe a function of their QTH...
Oh well...
--
Lee Hiers, AA4GA
Cornelia, Georgia
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