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Re: [CQ-Contest] Announcing the 2026 Poisson d'Avril contest

To: Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Announcing the 2026 Poisson d'Avril contest
From: Ed Parish via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Reply-to: k1ep@arrl.net
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 10:39:18 -0400
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I am calling CQ on FT16 but no QSOs yet.

Ed Parish, K1EP
k1ep@arrl.net

On Wed, Apr 1, 2026, 10:23 Mike Smith VE9AA via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote:

> I ran this contest (starting 15min early) expecting to hit 10,000 Q's
> before
> Doug fired up his rig but ran out of QSO partners to count down the serial
> numbers from. My score is thus negative-0
>
>
>
> Actually, that's a lie. I called CQ on all the WARC bands and never made a
> single QSO.
>
>
>
> When it appeared hopeless, I stopped CQing and just accepted the fact Doug
> will win as always, as he's from the future and somehow has rigged the
> final
> outcome. No idea how he does this but next year I'll engage some flux
> capacitors and reach out to Dr., Emmett Brown who can maybe ensure I get
> ahead of the game with some underground antennas and a weird Canadian
> callsign.
>
>
>
> Good for you 'DG !
>
>
>
> Mike -VE9AA- Keswick Ridge, NB, Canada
>
>
>
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