I want to reinforce Dan's comments...
Many of the bad J7zeroJ (and the 4zero1A )spots were likely due to bad
typing.
[BTW I was on a professional committee in the very early 1970's when
attaching keyboards to computers was just getting started. One of our
recommendations was to reorder the numbers to 0 to 9, in part to move
the 'zero' far from the 'oh' and in part as computer science was moving
to 0-based counting. Didn't have much impact!]
I still make the 'zero' vs 'oh' typing error fairly often.
Bob, w3idt
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n8ie@woh.rr.com wrote:
> Hello George and thanks for the Q's in the contest.
>
> I run QRP and don't use spotting, but I think the close proximity of the
> "O" and "0" keys may be the problem. Fat fingers could can really screw
> up a log, I know this first hand. LOL
>
> 73 and thanks again!
>
> Dan, N8IE
>
>
>>Not once did we sign J7zeroJ, so they are no doubt posted by ops
>>who can't
>>copy code all that well, or at all, for that matter. How much can
>>dah-dah-dah
>>sound like dah-dah-dah-dah-dah? Heck, we were even spotted by one
>>of the
>>"big boys" as J7zeroOJ...go figure.
>>
>>I am posting this note to the CQ-Contest reflector to spread the
>>word about
>>the harm of carelessly posting erroneous spots.
>>73, Geo...
>>
>>George Wagner, K5KG
>>941-312-9420
>>941-400-1960 cell
>
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