[bars] What I learned this weekend...

[Richard T]

Mine is Romeo Juliette Tango... Guess you can say my call dances... Will
propagation get any better as we transition to Autumn ? This sunspot/CME
craze is really testing our skills.
RichieT
W1RJT

On Mon, Aug 19, 2024, 11:33 AM Alan Ruben <alanruben62 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I worked the party as well and made 5 contacts in about an hour until I
> was summed to my "todo" list. The funny part was when I read my name off
> phonetically as "Alpha, Lima, Alpha, Mike". After my third contact I
> thought, "What the heck? I don't know how to spell my own name? It's fun
> getting older.
>
> Alan Ruben
> Billerica, MA 01821
> KC1TRY
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 10:11 AM Tim K1DC <k1dc.radio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I participated in the North America QSO Party this weekend.  Great fun,
>> BTW, even though I was only on for a few hours.  Part of the contest
>> exchange is your name, and best practice is to give it phonetically.  In my
>> case that is 'Tango India Mike'.  It's that last bit that can confuse some
>> folks with MIKE being a given name so when the QSB/QRM/QRN struck some OPs
>> assumed my name was MIKE.  I learned to use an alternative, MEXICO, when
>> giving my name phonetically.
>>
>> Yes, I realize that using non-standard phonetics is generally a bad idea
>> however in this case it worked well.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Tim - K1DC
>> --
>>
>> Courageously sent from a non-Apple device that *includes* a headphone
>> jack.
>> ------------------------------
>> <https://k1dc.com/img/k1dc-qsl-card-front.png> Tim Carter - K1DC (was
>> KC1RET)
>> +1.978.710.0133 <1.978.710.0133>
>> k1dc.radio at gmail.com
>> https://k1dc.com
>>
>> "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are
>> incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful
>> beyond imagination." -- *Albert Einstein*
>>
>> Warning: Spelling errors in this message are the product of a poor school
>> system. Pay teachures more than athletes.
>> This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named
>> above and may contain information that is confidential privileged or
>> unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of
>> humor or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended
>> recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not
>> authorized (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating
>> social fauxpas. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email,
>> although the mutt next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you.
>> _______________________________________________
>> bars mailing list
>> bars at w1hh.org
>> http://mail.w1hh.org/mailman/listinfo/bars_w1hh.org
>>
> _______________________________________________
> bars mailing list
> bars at w1hh.org
> http://mail.w1hh.org/mailman/listinfo/bars_w1hh.org
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.w1hh.org/pipermail/bars_w1hh.org/attachments/20240819/b858b4b3/attachment.htm>