[RTTY] NAQP Name

[Bill Haddon]

Year before last, just prior to a playoff game, I used 49ers in, I think,
the NA Sprint, SSB.  People loved it!  A major logging program, either WL
or N1MM, didn't love it, as numbers are not allowed in the NAME field.  So
necessary to spell our FORTYNINERS.   Caused some problems for log-checking
folks, but there were no complaints, just comments.

73 Bill n6zfo

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Kok Chen <chen at mac.com> wrote:

>
> On Feb 24, 2013, at 9:43 PM, Robert Chudek - K0RC wrote:
>
> > But you guys got me thinking... I'm considering honoring my
> gr-gr-Polish-grandfather by using his name next time...
>
> I got my current vanity call sign in May 2002.  During the next NAQP, I
> used "WILKE" as my name, to honor Wilke Cruse, the only previous owner of
> the call sign.
>
> N0AX told me that Wilke used "Bill" on the air, but I thought "Wilke" was
> more fitting.  He was a Sparks on the Seattle-Yokohama-Shanghai steamships
> before the war.
>
> Anyway, it must have gotten into some friends.ini database.  On the next
> couple of contests, I received stuff like TU WILKE :-).
>
> One year, I'd used CHENEY. (Contests are supposed to be fun, right?)
>
> 73
> Chen, W7AY
>
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