[UK-CONTEST] Ending Time

[Rob Harrison]

Tim,

It's already open. :0)

Bob


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Hugill" <tim04 at swandhams.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 5:36 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Ending Time


>
> And then to cap it all ....
>
> G4FJK/p is out on his lonely hill-top, and just as the CT1 calls, the 
> laptop
> battery goes flat.  What to do ?
> Oh, how I wish I had brought my trusty Timex and a pencil & paper ....
>
> Hears looking forward to the opening of the VHF contest season.
>
> 73
> Tim G4FJK
>
>
> _________________________________________________
>
> I can just imagine ............... it's the peak of the Es season but 
> sadly
> 24 hours has elapsed without DX, and with precisely one minute of the
> contest remaining, a CT1 calls you on 2m. There's plenty of time to 
> complete
> the standard exchange, except that he spends 65 seconds explaining how
> pleased he is to work you, first G station ever, etc, etc.
>
> Then he remembers that you need a contest report ...........
>
> Poor chap probably doesn't even know what time the contest finishes.
>
> John G4ZTR
>
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