Yep. I used to be able to recognize my friend Rag Otterstad's fist, and
knew that OZ8RO was coming next. NOW, it's a blast of dots, and oops, it's
not Rag in Denmark, but now again LA5HE in Norway!
And, of course, most of us can remember when a VR2 was about to send a Zone
32 from Fiji! But there you go again, VR2 has moved to VS6 and Zone 24.
Jeez, I guess we're all just going to have to get our code readers out. And
maybe "ask" what the country is.
Short call signs are GREAT. I truly hope we'll hear more of them.
Jim Neiger N6TJ (lobbying for N6)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ragnar Otterstad" <otterstad@enter.vg>
To: "VR2BrettGraham" <vr2bg@harts.org.hk>; <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:02 AM
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] Short contest calls.
>
> Calls like K2G & K7K are taking these Yank geographically meaningless
> callsigns too far...
>
> 73, VR2BrettGraham
>
>
> I could not agree more !
> Prefixes used to tell you where the station was. No longer ! Too bad.
>
> 73
>
> Rag LA5HE
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