[CQ-Contest] Here's an idea...

[Jim Stahl]

I pretty much stick to using my own name, though some years back I did use the (first) name of a local high school kid who was in the news. He wasn’t well known, so I did have to do a lot of repeats.

It so happens that we share the same name, though that name is my first name and his last name. And he’s a pretty good basketball player.


73  -  James   K8MR



> On Mar 16, 2018, at 8:40 PM, DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL <kr2q at optimum.net> wrote:
> 
> I remember one year I got wild.  I used the name Throckmorton.  It almost always got a repeat request.
> Some guys never did get it.
> 
> I remember calling W3XU, an old schoolmate from U Penn when he was at Wharton and I was at Penn
> Vet school, at W3ABT and later N3KZ.  I called him very qrq and gave him the name.  He was the only
> one who didn't skip a beat.  He came right back and said Thanks Throcky.  LOL
> 
> After the contest, some guys told me that it was too long to fit into their logging s/w.
> 
> Other guys, every now and then, will remind me of the time I was Throckmorton. 
> Sort of like when we used to have the DASH on 75m.  Lots of OT guys remember
> one my exchanges: 599 soup [signal report and what you had for dinner]. 
> And I remember K1KI's cat's name.  heh heh heh
> 
> One year I used the name Zdo, which is the first 3 letters of my work email address. 
> That got lots of repeat requests too.  Hey...contesting is fun, right! 
> 
> de Doug KR2Q