[CQ-Contest] Jargon

[Pete Smith]

At 09:37 AM 9/11/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:34:20PM -0600, Tony Field wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> As a fellow with a recent interest in contesting, I was wondering
>> if there is any place that I can get a "jargon dictionary".  For
>> example, I have figured out that NIL = "Not In Log", however I
>> cannot figure out what UBN stand for (for example, I assume that
>> it is NOT "Unusually Banal Nonsense") Are there any other
>> colourful acronyms that you can thing of????
>
>Personally, I think contesting is now big enough to support at least 
>one book.  DXing has several specialty publications, and contesting
>could benefit from one.
>
>UBN = "Unique, Bad, Not-in-log"

There is an excellent guide to this particular jargon collection on the
CQWW web site (www.cqww.com).



73, Pete Smith N4ZR

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