[TowerTalk] QST - warning about setting up dx sked

Dan Bookwalter n8dcj at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 18 09:50:21 EDT 2006


Gary

WOW....yeah that didnt work out as planned did it.....
i guess i would stick with english and let them
translate it in the future...

Dan N8DCJ

--- "Stone, Gary R." <Gary.Stone at va.gov> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
>  
> 
> Just wanted to share my experience - sorry if it is
> slightly off topic
> but wanted to let the group know because I know many
> of you are dx'ers.
> 
>  
> 
> I wrote to a Russian ham on email with the question
> of setting up a try
> on 40 meter CW for my 5 band waz award.  Well, I
> decided to include 
> 
> the Russian translation from a free translation
> page.  Well, mistake big
> time.  I will not print here in the email the result
> but will tell you
> to 
> 
> avoid such translation machines on the Internet.
> 
>  
> 
> I sent (in part) in English:  "I think we should use
> CW and the time for
> best propagation would be 1145 UTC."  Well, the
> translation page into
> Russian gave me something very different and
> unfortunately I had already
> sent it when I decided to check out the Russian in
> another page.  Well,
> just plug in the above English into the following
> page for English to
> Russian and then paste the Russian back into the
> same page or another
> free translation page (I checked two of them with
> the same result) and
> you will not like what you see in English.  (I hope
> the actual Russian I
> sent is not exactly the same)
> 
>  
> 
> http://translation2.paralink.com/ 
> 
>  
> 
> It translated my "CW" and "propagation" into
> something that could get me
> a visit by homeland security !!
> 
>  
> 
> Just a FYI and thought it important to share.
> 
>  
> 
> Gary, N5PHT
> 
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