[OKDXA] Sporadic E This Morning

AC5UP ac5up at windstream.net
Fri Jul 4 13:16:32 EDT 2008


Copied W1AW on 50.155 MHz late this morning. Weak, but he was doing some 
business into 5 Land. Also hearing several 10 Meter FM repeaters. SSB 
portion of the band is fairly quiet, best guess is that nobody noticed 
the band is open. Likely single hop E.

It was probably '97 or '98, Field Day, I was knocking down Q's with the 
BA club. W1AW came back to me and in my infinite a-holishness asked the 
OM to repeat his call phonetically. Twice. Then asked where the QTH 
was... As in, never heard of ya'. The op was cool, didn't take a 'tude 
like "This is the ARRL station", which was a good move or I'd have been 
tempted to ask A-Double-What ???

The logger working with me got a good laugh out of that one... ;)




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