[RTTY] No more contesting by AA6TY

[Don Hill AA5AU]

My guess is W7AY!

Don AA5AU

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kok Chen" <chen@mac.com>
To: <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 3:06 PM
Subject: [RTTY] No more contesting by AA6TY


> OK, folks, you won't hear AA6TY on during contests anymore.
> 
> No, it is not because of SO2R.  It is not because of Zone 17.   It is
> not because scores are not published on the web.  It is not even
> because I never win any contest.
> 
> If you remember, a couple of weeks ago I 'd asked whether
> I get points taken off if I used AA6TY/7 and the other end did not
> log the portable call correctly?
> 
> I'd also mentioned that there were no good 7-land calls available,
> or I would just get a vanity callsign.
> 
> Whereupon, Ed K4SB wrote me to ask what I considered a
> "good" call to be :-).
> 
> Anyway, with lots of hand-holding from K4SB, we applied for a new
> call which the FCC just granted this morning (thanks for the help, Ed!)
> 
> By pure coincidence,  if you take the intersymbol spaces away, the
> new call has almost the same Morse code sequence as the old call.
> A single dot changed into a dash.
> 
> old call: dit dah dit dah dah dit dit dit dit dah dah dit dah dah
> new call: dit dah dah dah dah dit dit dit dit dah dah dit dah dah
> 
> On diddles, it is one whole character shorter.  Don't worry,
> I'll make up for it by sending 599 a few more times.
> 
> See everyone on ANARTS! (At least on Saturday, anyway.)
> 
> 73
> Chen, ex-AA6TY
> 
> 
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