[RTTY] Guys- thanks for the laughs!

[Jerry Flanders]

Hi Dick

When I read your last sentence "as I age I find myself doing some 
amazing things!", I realized that I am not old - I simply have 
entered an amazing phase of life ;-)

Jerry W4UK

At 11:07 PM 3/19/2016, RLVZ--- via RTTY wrote:
>Guys,
>
>Thank You for sharing your war stories like the one below.  I had a  good
>laugh with a couple of them today!  Many say laughter is good for  our
>health, if so, I need lots of laughs!
>
>When I'm running stations during RTTY contests, there are more  and people
>calling in who give me their exchange information first and then  send their
>Callsign once at the end.  Today, I had a guy call in with his  exchange
>information and never send his callsign even  once.  Perhaps it's some of
>these pour souls whom we  call while they're CQ'ing and they give us the very
>unfriendly "dupe"  message?
>
>I love contesting, but there sure are things that get frustrating  from
>time to time.  The most aggravating for me is when I'm  running stations and
>having a great time, and a loud signal starts calling CQ on  the same
>frequency.  So if I have ever done that to you, I'd like to  l 
>apologize.  And if I
>haven't done it yet, I'd like to apologize in  advance, because as I age I
>find myself doing some amazing things!
>
>Happy Contesting!
>
>73,
>Dick- K9OM
>
>
>
>
>
>In a message dated 3/19/2016 6:34:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>rtty-request at contesting.com writes:
>
>The  today's propagation makes every single QSO unique and memorable.
>Having
>just a handful of QSOs I was pleased to hear the first signal from  South
>America in BARTG and called the guy. The response was amazing,
>MY  BROTHER VLADIMIR, SORRY OM, QSO B4.
>
>Ok, I have lost the SA QSO but it  made my day.
>
>73,
>Vlad  VE3IAE
>
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