Monty Python dealt with this subject in the "Holy Grail"
Guard: I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you
silly king!
GALAHAD: What are you doing in England?
GUARD: Mind your own business!
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/mphg/mphg.htm
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73 Warren K2ORS
WD2XGJ 136-140kHz
WD2XSH/23 505-510kHz
WE2XEB/2 160-189kHz
WE2XGR/1 505-515kHz
FN42hi
http://www.w4dex.com/wd2xgj.htm
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From: "Graham" <[email protected]>
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> We appear to be in the company of a very rare occurrence , a French pirate
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> The last documented individual aptly name 'Olivier The Mouth' apparently ran
> off and hid on the ivory coast, not quite the governor of Jamaica route to
> fame , nor is messing about with G 2 letter call sign's.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John RABSON" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 4:59 PM
> Subject: Re: LF: RE: OR7T 559
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> On 31/01/2008 at 12:18 John Pumford-Green GM4SLV wrote:
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> >That 477 is an interesting report!
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> >"Readable with practically no difficulty, moderately strong signals,
> >near pure tone with trace of ripple modulation."
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> >Don't hear too many "non-T9" reports these days...
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> Last weekennd in between DIYing, I had a quick listen on 40 m and went back
> to a G6 two-letter call who was calling CQ Contest. I signed Foxtrot 5
> Victor Lima Foxtrot. He came back to me:
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> "G9VLF you are 59 etc"
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> With a call of that antiquity, he should have known that G9 calls are not
> issued to the ordinary radio amateur. Also, as he got my prefix wrong I was
> not 59.
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> 73
> John F5VLF
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