[TowerTalk] Re: [CQ-Contest]Leading zero on SSB

[Richard M. Gillingham]

Dunno if you sent this to the right reflector, but in reply, at least
they're trying...

Gil, W1RG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Cqtestk4xs at aol.com>
To: <TOWERTALK at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 3:36 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: [CQ-Contest]Leading zero on SSB


> I can live with the "please copy" guys.  Even the "good luck" is cool.
Lots
> of the old timers from the 50s still use "please accept" or "please take."
> However, in my 25+ years of doing SS, I have never heard as many "zero,
zero,
> six" as this years SS SSB.  It drives me nuts to hear some PW KG4XXX or
KC9XYZ
> send them.  You know you have to copy three digits in all the mud and then
find
> out two of them were useless after all the work.
>
> On the happy side, it appears although there were not a whole lots of
checks
> of 00 or higher in the CW SS there were bunches of them in the SSB SS.
Some
> of them sounded like pretty decent ops too.  I only got one "10-4" the
whole
> weekend!
>
> Bill K4XS
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