Dunno if you sent this to the right reflector, but in reply, at least
they're trying...
Gil, W1RG
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Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 3:36 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: [CQ-Contest]Leading zero on SSB
> I can live with the "please copy" guys. Even the "good luck" is cool.
Lots
> of the old timers from the 50s still use "please accept" or "please take."
> However, in my 25+ years of doing SS, I have never heard as many "zero,
zero,
> six" as this years SS SSB. It drives me nuts to hear some PW KG4XXX or
KC9XYZ
> send them. You know you have to copy three digits in all the mud and then
find
> out two of them were useless after all the work.
>
> On the happy side, it appears although there were not a whole lots of
checks
> of 00 or higher in the CW SS there were bunches of them in the SSB SS.
Some
> of them sounded like pretty decent ops too. I only got one "10-4" the
whole
> weekend!
>
> Bill K4XS
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