[RTTY] Three lessons from NAQP

[Gary AL9A]

If you want to talk about overkill, then you needed to work the guy who sent 
his state as MINNESOTA.  I guess he figures everyone out there is too dumb 
to comprehend what MN means despite the fact that we all have to manually 
type MN in the state field as no amount of mouse clicking is going to make 
MINNESOTA fit into a 2 position field!  Another favorite was the guy in MA 
sending his name as BAMBI.  Needed lots of AGNs to get that one right. 
Finally, for those using the first name of AL, don't!  Use ALLEN or ALAN, 
but please not ALFONSO!

73,
Gary AL9A


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: February 27, 2011 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Three lessons from NAQP


On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C
<jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

I forgot one:

4.  Use the standard 2-letter postal abbreviation for your state or
province.  Don't spell it out, and don't put punctuation after it!
One station sent something like:

    <name> SS. <name> SS,

so there was no way to click on the state abbreviation (SS) and *not*
get the period or comma along with it, at least in WriteLog.

I won't even get started about the guy who separated the two copies of
his exchange with:

    <space><hyphen><space>

Talk about overkill!

-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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