[CQ-Contest] Where Do We Get Off Doing This?

[Zack Widup]

Good point, Dale.  I still get confused myself between Alaska and Alabama. 
It's not so obvious that Alaska is AK. But if you enter AL, it counts as 
Alabama.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Dale Martin wrote:

>
>
> Stateside hams: Where do we get off giving the full names of states to DX
> hams in a contest?
>
> What makes us think that DX hams we contact know that Michigan is MI and
> Missouri is MO and Mississippi is MS?
>
> I had time to listen to a number of QSO's in pileups (more than I liked)
> this weekend...as I'm sure most of us did.
>
> I heard essentially the same refrain repeated in many of them:
> "Tennessee...now that's TE, right?"  and another exchange had to be made to
> clarify it for the operator.
>
> If the stateside operator had used Tango November in the first place, some
> time could have been saved on everyone's part: the stateside station, the DX
> station, and the stations waiting to work the DX.
>
> So, stateside hams, please use two letter phonetics for the state
> abbreviations for our DX ham friends.
>
> There... I feel much better now...
>
> 73,
> dale, kg5u
>