[WriteLog] RE: [RTTY] April Fool...

[GilBaronW0MN]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Scott Schultz
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 1:34 PM
> To: RTTY Reflector
> Cc: WL Reflector
> Subject: [WriteLog] RE: [RTTY] April Fool...
>
>
> One other April Fools joke was in QST a few years ago...
>
> I don't remember the specificds, but a company had just designed
> and built a
> new HF "dream" antenna. Small, lightweight, multiband, broadbanded and
> inexpesnive; in other words, everything a ham could want. They
> were getting
> pretty good signal reports in ordinary rag chews, but the real
> test would be
> how it performed in a contest. They proclaimed their new antenna design a
> rousing success because everyone in the contest gave them a 599 report!
>

THIS IS NO JOKE, if you operate any contest or any DX pileup then it is
obviously a true story. Not only that, EVERY participant in EVERY contest
has this antenna.

> 73,
> de Scott N0IU
>
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