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Subject: [CQ-Contest] VR8A (and other oddities)
From: Felipe.Hernandez@isla.net (Felipe Hernandez)
Date: Sat Dec 6 15:36:52 1997
At 11:17 AM 12/5/97 -0800, you wrote:
>> >And Last: A61AJ ...
>> 
>> Can't comment on operating techniques, because despite 1630 other QSOs I
>> never even heard them!  Go figure.
>
>Yep.  But it goes both ways.  When we visited Ceuta in 1993 and did a
>M/M on SSB, I was on 40.  There was a big effort that weekend from Sri
>Lanka, 4S0AA or 4S0DX or soemthing like that.  I heard them over and
>over and over and could never crack the pileup, ever.
>
>Finally around 2300Z on Sunday I get a call from these guys, "EA9UK,
>you are 59-22.  We have been calling you *all* weekened and we have
>never been able to crack the pileup.
>
>--Trey, N5KO

Trey,

 It wasnt anything weird with propagation, was just coincidence
 whenever you call them and they call you you were listening to each
 other and thinking "Ahhh this damm alligator!!"

 73's

 Felipe
 NP4Z




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