Ah, yes... VP2E. A 'fone contest. Saturday night. I was at a certain
Multi-Multi station (who will divulge their identity if they wish). Things
were a little slow. VP2E was running on some band. I wrote up a list for
QTL ("Send me the list of all the op's at your M-M station"). But I did
not include only the op's at the M-M -- I wrote down calls of people I knew
who would not be in the contest, about twenty calls altogether.
The station proprietor and I sat down together to work VP2E, with the
microphone between us, alternating as we ran down the list of calls. After
eight or ten eight-second QSOs the VP2E op asked "Are they really all
there?" The proprietor and I started laughing, but kept going. We got to
laughing so hard that some W7 squeezed in a QSO. We laughed even harder.
We finished the list, and VP2E went back to their ho-hum 300 QSO/hr.
Within the rules? Not then, and maybe even less so now. Legal? How can
you ask such a question? Fun? Absolutely! Harmless? Probably (I hope),
otherwise we wouldn't have done it.
Forty-five years later, would I do it again? Of course not! Unless I was
looking for a laugh. :>)
73, Art K3KU
On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM Lee Hiers <lee.hiers@gmail.com> wrote:
> VP2E in 1981...phone contest, but still. We were running a bit north of
> 300 Qs/Hr. and a guy came on and drawled "If you'd talk slower you'd work
> more people". He said it a couple of times and in the meantime, we worked
> several folks under him. I'm pretty certain he was being serious and not
> yanking our chain....
>
> 73 de Lee, AA4GA
>
>
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