Which is why the old DX admonition of "Work 'First, Worry Later" still holds true; often abbreviated "WFWL".

Well, ITU just assigns prefixes to countries and it is up to local telecom administrations how to structure the rest of the callsign. Some, I guess became less traditional recently, as time from time

Sergei ....   OMG !   You're right !   They're on QRZ as legit ham calls.  They look more like  CB  call signs and that's why I assumed they were bogus.  At any rate, they don't really have

Both are legal ham calls according to qrz.com Sergei kd6cji [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Really ?    Both of you worked illegal callsigns (probably unlicensed on ham frequencies)...   hope there were no Official Observers listening !    :-)  Jerry  n9avy 

Great question, Barry, I worked TE1856 last week. I think we should be able use them as Wild Cards! Milt? VY 73 de Joe KJ8O 1244 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Just worked a station that made me wonder how he fits in work the world. His name is Dean and his call is CD5846. Not sure if I get credit for the Charlie or the Delta or if this is a wild card I can

Hadn't crossed my mind at the time. However, with the comments made it is quite possible he is handicapped.  I have a friend who is blind and is talking about PSK31 and he used voice recognition

As for me...I just got my antenna back up after 3-4 days of wind & rain. I was thrilled to hear anyone. Larry WA7HDZ ________________________________ To: 070@... Sent: Tuesday, April 9,

He possibly could have some kind of handicap forcing him to operate how he does. Macular degeneration and not wanting to be locked into macros would come to my mind. Reminds me of a local RC plane

I worked him the other night. He is a hunt and peck typist (or should that be keyboarder?) and the QSO took a while. The conversation was very weird and I played along in the same vein. I think he is

I heartily second that. I would like to see Carl back on the air. Vy 73 de Joe KJ8O 1244 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Stickers arrived to LZ1KZX too. Will check later my home mailbox 73! de Ivan LZ2HT (1660)

Carl, Please consider this an invitation to re-join the "operating events" of the 070 Club. There are many things that are gained by participating. Your LONP count jumps, you qualify for more

Thank you, Milt.  It has been my experience that many members of the group want to control or dictate how we operate our stations.  It has turned me off and has limited my involvement with this

Everybody is different. Each of us enjoys the hobby differently. Because a person doesn't enjoy the hobby exactly as we see it doesn't make him weird or different, or worthy of, or subject to

Don't think I was nitpicking so much as the station in question.  He would have been far better off calling something other than "no macros".  If he wanted to ragchew, he should have said so.  This

I must heartily agree with David. For me, in recent weeks, there has been far too much 'nit picking' about the 'Elusive Perfect Digital Operating Procedure' (EPDOP). There has been a very small  but

Reminds me of W2OY..."No lids, no kids, no Space Cadets" Stan W9SMR

Is it possible that the operator is sending with a key and not a computer? This is possible on some radios that also decode digital signals directly. This would explain both slower speed and no