[Dx-qsl] C6AGU

Mon Feb 21 15:56:11 EST 2011

Sending ATT = 100
Sending EJ = 1 less dit than 1 but clearly was meant as 1 (hand gets tired)
Put the two zeros after the one and you get 100
Happens all the time. After 40 years you get used to it!
73?DX
On 2/21/2011 1:40 PM, ALAN ZACK wrote:
> Anyone work C6AGU during this weekend's ARRL DX CW Contest? I carefully
> listened for his power exchange and copied EJTT. He was 59+ here, no QRM,
> very FB copy. I listened for about 10-15 contacts and each time it sounded
> like EJTT. I am not familiar with EJTT as a shortened number. Of course the
> TT means 00. But what about the EJ? Maybe his memory keyer was putting a
> space between the first and second dits. If EJ is sent as one group, no
> spacing, it would be a 2. So that would make his power 200 watts. But he
> seemed too strong here in NV to be 200 watts. I wonder what others copied.
>>>> Many were sending ATT, NN, etc, but I have never seen EJTT before. I know
> you should log what you hear but I automatically convert ATT, NN, etc to a
> number when I log it. If I submitted my log with a power of EJTT I don't
> think the software would understand it.
>>>> TIA& 73, Alan, K7ACZ
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