[UK-CONTEST] More thoughts on the contest.

[Gerard Lynch]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "brian coyne" <g4odv at yahoo.co.uk>

>  Another aspect I wonder about is how cqww boys deal with poor sending. A 
> couple of times,
> when I was doing the 15m spell I heard a 5B9, I did puzzle it but assumed 
> it to be something
> newly allocated, anyway I was busy and paid no attention and he never 
> called me. However as it > happened, I cam across him on 40m, he was going 
> up the band searching and calling at the same > rate as myself so I heard 
> him several times sending his call 5B9AGA. The dx stns went back with > 
> the same call and he did not correct them. They should have been put on 
> alert with the exchange
> 5nn 14, but not one of them queried it,

On the other hand, maybe they worked out it was an HB9 from the Zone number 
and didn't want to get into a pointless, time wasting discussion with 
someone whose CW/English mightn't even have been up to it.  That's what I 
would have done.  Not that that excused the apalling sending, mind.

73

Gerry G0RTN
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