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Re: [CQ-Contest] "please copy" - aarrggghhh!their

To: Hans Brakob <kzerohb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] "please copy" - aarrggghhh!their
From: "Alan M. Eshleman" <doctore@well.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 14:59:38 -0700 (PDT)
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Let me weigh in.  

I don't use "please copy" and I even have one of K9YC's "no 'please copy' 
buttons" but worrying about others using the expression is way down my list.  
The top of my list is the execrable "1-877 Kars for Kids" followed by people 
who don't know the distinctions among "they're", "there", and "their" or 
between "too" and "to". 

If you loathe "Kars for Kids as much as I do, you might enjoy this article: 
https://www.vice.com/en/article/689kgv/kars-4-kids-the-most-hated-and-best-jingle-of-all-time
 

So, 73 & Gud DX,

Alan, K6SRZ

 
----- Original Message -----
From: Hans Brakob <kzerohb@gmail.com>
To: k9yc@arrl.net, cq-contest@contesting.com
Sent: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 07:38:24 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] "please copy" - aarrggghhh!

What exactly, Jim, is “the problem” that needs a solution?

About the only phone contest that I enter is SS, which has as its’ roots a test 
for traffic handlers.  “Please Copy” comes from there and I must admit to 
sometimes using the phrase.  I may make a point to do so more often.  What QRG 
do you commonly occupy in SS?


73, de Hans, KØHB
“Just a Boy and his Radio”™
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From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+kzerohb=gmail.com@contesting.com> on 
behalf of Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2021 4:43:12 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] "please copy" - aarrggghhh!

On 6/27/2021 12:48 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
> We were all new once.

Most of these lids aren't new, and imitating what they hear on the air.
I DO correct them, tell them I'm not working them, and don't log them.

If we're not part of the solution, we're part of the problem.

73, Jim K9YC
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