[Dx-qsl] C6AGU

[ALAN ZACK]

Ron,

 

The point of my original email was to determine if EJTT was some sort of abbreviated number I was not aware of. I have since learned it was actually 2TT, 200 watts. I am not faulting the ops at C6AGU but myself for not recognizing EFTT as actually being 2TT. I don't see anything mysterious about it at all. I don't know what you are trying to read into this but I don't believe either myself or the ops at C6AGU have done anything wrong or out of the ordinary. I have NOT accused them of faulty sending or lack of CW skills as you seem to indicate. It is also not a matter of lack of trust of other stations activities or anything like that as you mentioned. Just a simple request of the meaning of a possible abbreviated number that I did not recognize.

And I wouldn't expect anyone to run a contest with a straight key or speed key. And I don't send R 5NN NV or such a 1000 times during a contest with a speed key but it is there in case I want to add something extra after the exchange. 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Notarius W3WN [mailto:wn3vaw at verizon.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 1:13 PM
To: k7acz at cox.net
Cc: aa7jv at atlanticbb.net; DX-QSL at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] C6AGU

 

Alan, it appears that you took my little attempt at humor personally.  

 

The only thing I was trying to say was that I copied the code in my head.  I do not speak for how anyone else, yourself included, did so.

 

So the code wasn't sent perfectly.  Big deal.  It will be a sad day when minor discrepancies are automated out of existance.  All ready it is becoming rarer to hear high(er) speed code sent with a bug, or with a straight key (and my hat's off to those who can do it, with my glass wrist, I can't).  Not impossible, but not anything like what it used to be.

 

So if it was a keyer hiccup, or programming hiccup, no big deal.  If it was a deliberate attempt at a little color, so to speak, more power to him.  I don't think it was any more mysterious than that.

 

And if the man sent 2TT for 200 watts, pending evidence to the contrary, I believe him.  But the lack of trust that too many contesters are having in each other is a different topic for a different time, and for a different reflector.  Regardless, the highest power level I copied from any C6 station over the weekend was 250.  Most were either 100 or 200. 

 

In any event, this is starting to drift out of the realm of the DX QSL reflector.  So I will refrain from further commentary here on the subject out of respect for the wishes of the reflector owners, moderators, and users.

 

73