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]>
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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