Yep, Pete, seen that.
Lots of "busted calls" on the cluster, for sure. And a number of them
wouldn't be valid callsigns, anywhere -- thankfully, for those, WriteLog
questions them and tries to make you avoid entering them....
WB2WIK/6
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem." --
Henry Kissinger
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Smith [SMTP:n4zr@contesting.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:00 PM
> To: Amps@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Phonetics
>
> At 07:00 AM 3/14/02 -0800, Colin Lamb wrote:
> >I have found a simple approach to understanding phonetics of a dx contest
> station. Sometimes I cannot understand the call sign of a strong station.
> I figure half the problem is at my end and the other half is at the
> transmitting end. Repeats do not seem to help. So I say 73 and listen
> for
> awhile. If I listen long enough, some kind soul on this end will repeat
> his call sign and I can log that.
>
> Speaking of phonetics, anyone remember the VU4 who was spotted during the
> ARRL phone contest? I don't normally operate assisted, but I was just
> foolin' around, not even using my contest logger. The sequence of spots
> with VU4, YU4, and finally UU4, which was what it was, would have been
> funny if it wasn't a little sad. The guy's accent wasn't even very heavy,
> but he was talking realllllly fast and distorting some.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
>
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