[CQ-Contest] RTTY Reflections

[Zack Widup]

If someone did that to me, I'd just drop it and spin the dial ...

73, Zack W9SZ

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, James Duffey wrote:

>> I listened to an OP browbeat another on the air because he said
>> "Please copy"... then gave the exchange. The offended Op than told
>> him that he was wasting time, and sounded like a" G-D idiot," then
>> further admonished him to "Just give the stupid exchange dummy!"
>
>
> I wonder if this was the same op who lectured me with similar
> profanity in 1994 on using /5 in my exchange during the CW
> Sweepstakes contest?
>
> It was my first contest from this new QTH, and having been first
> licensed in the 60s, when the FCC cared about these things, I used
> KK6MC/5 both when calling and in the exchange. I was on 20M CW Sunday
> afternoon. I sent my exchange, and was shocked when the other op
> replied by going on a rant, complete with profanity, on how I was
> wasting his time and mine by signing the /5. In those days I copied
> on CW on paper and it was shocking to see me swearing at myself as I
> wrote down what he was sending.
>