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

[John Geiger]

And if you look at some of the geography surveys being
conducted, many US hams might not know that Missouri,
Mississippi, and Mountana are actually part of the US!

73s John AA5JG

--- Ward Silver <hwardsil at gmail.com> wrote:

> > What makes us think that DX hams we contact know
> that Michigan is MI and
> > Missouri is MO and Mississippi is MS?
> 
> Heck, what makes us think that US hams know? :-)
> 
> Sweepstakes and NAQP logs are *full* of goofs - MI
> gets entered for 
> MInnesota and MIchigan and MIssouri and MIssissippi,
> MO for MOntana and 
> MissOuri, MA for MAssachusetts and MAine. Etc etc
> etc.
> 
> The same concern is also there for many state QSO
> parties.  It is incumbent 
> on the station receiving the exchange to enter it
> into the log correctly 
> even though it may be helpful for the station giving
> out the exchange to 
> help them understand it.
> 
> 73, Ward N0AX 
> 
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