Re: [CQ-Contest] Record-Setters

[Steve Dyer <w1srd@yahoo.com>]

Do we really know it was K6CT?? :-)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/nobody-knows-youre-a-dog-as-iconic-internet-cartoon-turns-20-creator-peter-steiner-knows-the-joke-rings-as-relevant-as-ever/2013/07/31/73372600-f98d-11e2-8e84-c56731a202fb_blog.html

73,
Steve
W1SRD

> In the ARRL Contest Update for November 6, 2013
> N0AX writes -
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>   "In the growing ranks of the remotes, this may be
>   a record-setter. Tom K6CT lives in Solaris, Uruguay
>   near Montevideo but logged in to one of the
>   operating positions at K4VV in Virginia this past,
>   weekend for the ARRL CW Sweepstakes. Operating as
>   W4YY for which he is the trustee, he made a clean
>   sweep at a distance of 8,323 km (5,171 miles). Your
>   editor made a QSO with W4YY and had no idea the
>   control operator was far, far away."
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> On the internet, there is no "far, far away" - distance
> has no significance, there is no DX, there are no records
> to be set.
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> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
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