[UK-CONTEST] 59 reports on VHF

David Ferrington, M0XDF M0XDF at Alphadene.co.uk
Wed May 5 02:11:39 PDT 2010


I agree, however, classic case in point..

acall ...
G6BRA
BRA go
Golf Six Bravo Romeo Alpha
was that Gold Eight Bravo Rome ?
Golf Six Bravo Romeo Alpha
ah - G8BRA,  59, 00...

Yeah right, so you still didn't get our callsign right after asking 3 times and then gave us a 59, when I know our station isn't performing too well and your'e not a 59 with us.

:-(
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73 de M0XDF

On 5 May 2010, at 09:54, John Lemay wrote:

> I take a rather simple view (as usual):-
> 
> If I send someone a 5 and 2 report, it's my cue to the other station to give
> me his details slowly and clearly more that once. If I send 5 and 9 I am
> indicating that he's loud and clear and I do not want to receive all the
> information many times with as many different versions of the phonetic
> alphabet ...........



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