Topband: over confident

[Mark Langenfeld]

Yeah, Rick, they often will do that.  (I was offered an after-the-fact log "fix" when XR0ZR copied and apparently repeated my call as WA9EK -- an error I missed while on the air. But I knew I would never be able to look at that XR0 QSL as "legit," so I said "Thanks; no," and chalked it up to experience.)  

Maybe I'm just being old-fashioned and stupid, but I always believed that a busted call exchange equals a busted Q.  This is ham RADIO, and "completing" a Q via the internet just doesn't seem right to me.  

My $0.02, 

Mark -- WA9ETW



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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:43:40 -0800
From: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard at karlquist.com>
To: k1fz at myfairpoint.net, Topband <topband at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: over confident
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Don't worry, after the DXpedition, you can get them for fix the log
for the busted call.  It is advisable to check with the real N1FZ to 
make sure he wasn't involved.  I often get into pileups with N6RO
or some other similar sounding call and then it isn't so clear about
the busted call thing if he works one of us.

Rick N6RK