Oh my....I wish I had the log from that one!
73 de Lee, AA4GA/VP2EZ
On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 8:23 PM Art Boyars <artboyars@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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