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Phil,
I seem to remember some guys at the school calling official observor cards
S.O.B. cards because when you got one you would say son of a bitch.
Fred Olver N9bso
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: FirstQ S L
> Ed,
>
> That is funny because I got one of those once, too, from the Grand Island,
> Nebraska monitoring station. I called up a friend a mile away and said,
> Tune down on the bottom of the 40 meter CW band and I'll send some CW at
> the
> bottom of the 80 meter band and let's see if you can hear me. He did so.
> I
> could clearly hear myself through the phone and he yelled into the phone,
> is
> that you? I said, yep, that's me. He own a Collins KWM2 and S8 was like
> 40
> over 9 on my meter. He said, You are 30 over S9 on my meter. Well, I
> figured I had a problem so sent my rig back to Drake and when it came
> back,
> we repeated the test and I was fine. I about peed my pants, though, when
> my
> mom read that FCC card to me and they repeated letter for letter what I
> had
> been transmitting on the 80 meter novice band. Talk about reading the
> mail.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
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