Jeff...and all
Well, I have one for that, too. I used to be N4OKX. Actually received QSL
cards made out to N40KX (november four-zero kilo xray) and SSB ops who would
respond to my call like that. Who knows how they logged it.
Now, mechanized glee, that's another thing altogether.
73, Mark, K9GX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Maass" <jmaass@columbus.rr.com>
To: "Mark Steven Williams" <K9GX@n4gn.com>; <K3BU@aol.com>;
<cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 3:43 PM
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW SSB. Mathematics
>
> I was distressed when looking through the PJ2T UBN for
> a CQWW CW to find that we lost two P4 QSOs on 160 meters
> when the operator typed the letter "O" (Oh) instead of
> the digit "0" (zero) in the "P40" prefixes.
>
> A stupid, very hard-to-find typo that a human log checker
> would never find/penalize, but which the computerized
> log checking finds and penalizes with mechanized glee!
>
>
> 73, Jeff K8ND
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
>> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Mark Steven
>> Williams
>> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 8:39 PM
>> To: K3BU@aol.com; cq-contest@contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW SSB. Mathematics
>>
>> ...or do something I do occasionally, enter "E" (echo) when I heard "X"
>> (xray). I have dreaded "Echo-Xray Juxtaposition Syndrome" Badly wired
>> brain
>> configuration.
>>
>> 73, K9GX
>
>
>
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