Fwd: [CQ-Contest] ROTTEN OPERATING

[Mike Gilmer - N2MG]

Sure, the running guy made an error, and surely 
typos occur... but it's also possible he heard you 
calling someone up the band a few hundred Hz and 
your transmissions were "in sync" so he thought 
you were calling him.

The fact that so many S&P guys call WAY off 
frequency can cause running guys to get a little 
loose about how far off frequency a caller they'll 
respond to.  Sooner or later they get fooled and 
work a "phantom".

73 Mike N2MG


On Sat, 29 December 2001, Jim Rhodes wrote:

> You forgot my favorite.
> 
> ROTTEN OPERATING NO 4
> 
> The running station types a call wrong. Since 
> he is the one holding the frequency, he could 
> not possibly make an error. Anyway this seems 
> to be the  opinion of most of the replies to 
> this thread. Well unless someone is out there 
> using my call in the contest, there is no way 
> that I could be a dupe in someone's log. S&P 
> operators are not the only people to make errors.

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