[CQ-Contest] The OO Strikes Back

[ted demopoulos]

I o

I once got an OO notice congratulating me!

Working split on 40, I blasted a local QSO (no, I didn't listen first!! No 
excuse, but it probably wouldn't have helped as I couldn't hear most of them 
anyway in the crud).
When they announced on the DX freq (below 7100 on SSB) what I had just done, 
I apologized an left.

Should have kept and framed it!
73
Ted KR1G
>From: jmax at attglobal.net
>Reply-To: jmax at attglobal.net
>To: Ron Notarius WN3VAW <wn3vaw at fyi.net>
>CC: cq-contest at contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] The OO Strikes Back
>Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 18:08:55 -0800
>
>Ron -
>
>Of course, what *may* have happened is that the
>OO heard so many problematic QSOs above 14.347
>that he/she prepared the forms to cut down on the
>time required to fill them out.  Even OOs like to have
>a life once in a while!
>
>73.  Jim, W6CF
>
>
>Ron Notarius WN3VAW wrote:
>
> > In amongst today's mail was  my first "QSL" from the ARRL DX Phone -- an 
>OO
> > notice complaining about my contact with one of the Italian 2x1's -- an 
>Out
> > of Band violation, to be specific.  Now, interestingly enough, it 
>doesn't
> > say what frequency I was allegedly on, but informed me that on 20 I 
>should
> > stay below 14.347 (which I thought I had).  Even more interesting, the
> > entire form and most of the information EXCEPT for my call, the DX call, 
>&
> > the time of the infraction was filled out in advance and photocopied.
> >
> > My point here is not per se to berate the OO.  My point is that we must 
>all
> > watch the band edges in contests, as there are obviously people 
>prepared,
> > eager, and ready with the OO forms.  Maybe just a little too prepared to 
>my
> > tastes.
> >
> > 73, ron wn3vaw
> >
> > "What's wrong with being an angry prophet denouncing the hypocrisies of 
>our
> > time?"  --  Howard Beale
> >
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