[CQ-Contest] Funny exchange

[John Geiger]

Just think if those guys work each other in the WAE contest and try to do a QTC!

73s John AA5JG

--- On Sat, 7/24/10, David Levine <david at levinecentral.com> wrote:

> From: David Levine <david at levinecentral.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Funny exchange
> To: "CQ Contesting Reflector" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010, 1:50 PM
> Maybe this happens more often but it
> was the first time I heard it and it
> made me laugh. There was a DX station in Germany calling CQ
> in the IOTA
> contest and a US station sent back his report to the German
> station. The
> German station kept asking him to "repeat his report" and
> the US station
> kept send the German station the serial number that the
> German station sent
> him. I guess the US station didn't understand the German
> station was asking
> to have the US repeat the report, not confirm what the
> German station sent
> him.
> 
> German station: You are 59 456
> US station: You are 59 002
> German station: Please repeat my report
> US station: 59 456
> German station: Please again repeat my report
> US station 59 456
> German station: My Report please. Repeat my report.
> US station 59 456
> 
> It was a bit like an Abbott and Costello skit.
> 
> K2DSL - David
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