How about "Rocker" as in John Rocker HI ! They don't like him in
Cleveland either !!!
Jeff KU8E
--- John Laney <k4bai@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> In my opinion, that is a nice gimmick if there is a lot of interest
> like
> there was in January for the Fla election mess. If we just pick some
> odd
> names and use them, all we will do is decrease our scores. I should
> know:
> In one NAQP CW, I operated W4AN and unwisely used the name JOHN. I
> got many,
> many requests for repeats and finally figured out that a lot of the
> backscatter were suddenly afraid they had W4AU JOHN in VA and not
> W4AN JOHN
> (BILL) in GA. Bill suggested that I should use Bill and I should
> have
> listened to him. I know that K4OJ uses a different screwy name in
> every
> NAQP, so we have come to expect that, but for most of us, we will
> maximize
> our scores by using our expected names. If we have another olympics
> or other
> such event of great interest, we might consider a one-time change,
> but
> otherwise I don't recommend it. It always slows me up (a tiny bit)
> when the
> Talking Eds group in WA change all their names to ED for a contest
> too.
>
> Only my opinion. 73, John, K4BAI.
>
>
>
> Jay Pryor wrote:
>
> > There was some discussion, following the FCG's "Chad" effort, about
> the
> > SECC coming up with a name or names that would make the SECC stand
> out in
> > the NAQP. Is there any interest in doing that? Florida's effort
> tied in
> > nicely with what was going on the country at that time. Does it
> make any
> > sense for us to do something similar? Suggestions of names or a
> name we
> > would all use?
> >
> > - Jay, K4OGG
> >
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