[CQ-Contest] Your thoughts on this one

Cqtestk4xs at aol.com Cqtestk4xs at aol.com
Sat Nov 30 22:18:11 EST 2002


I received the following email today.  What would you guys do?......Names and 
calls changed to protect the innocent.

Subj:    Phone Sweepstakes
Date:   11/30/02 8:27:30 PM Greenwich Standard Time


Hi...

   We need your help.  

    During the recent ARRL Phone Sweepstakes you made contact with the 
XYZ Radio Club, Jr located near Anytown.

    XYZ is an amateur radio club just for kids and we had the 
pleasure of making a contact with you using our club call: W1XYZ   We 
had six kids ranging in age from 7 through 14 yrs old participating in 
the contest.  The kids made most of the contacts and did most of the 
logging until they crashed around 0300 local.  They picked back up 
around 0700.

Unfortunately, due to youthful handwriting, a cranky laptop and old 
technology, we lost several entries from the contest.  We have recovered 
most of the "lost" information but a few still need a few holes filled. 
 In most cases the only thing we're missing are the serial numbers from 
the exchange.

Can you confirm our contact and the serial number you provided to us?

Thanks much.

This was the first real contest for XYZ and the kids set some 
challenging goals for themselves:  WAS and a clean sweep.  They just 
missed both because they never heard Nevada.

Hope to work you next year.

73 de W1XYZ





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