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Re: LF: RE: EA4BVZ to night

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Subject: Re: LF: RE: EA4BVZ to night
From: "mal hamilton" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:12:57 -0000
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LID is a cover for the top of a pot, one Belgium amateur is fasinated by it,
what did he think it was for?????????????

g3kev

----- Original Message -----
From: "pa3abk" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: LF: RE: EA4BVZ to night


> Op 24-11-2010 11:16, Rik Strobbe schreef:
> > ...
> > So no need for calling (and certainly not for calling him LID).
> > 73, Rik  ON7YD - OR7T
> >
> Sri had to look up LID (was unknown to me)
> qte
>
> The term lid came from operators who would put the lid of a Prince Albert
tobacco
> tin on the sounder so they could copy the code easier.  It was a
> practice that was frowned on by operators who did not have to do
> this and it became the slang used for bad operators.
> They would also say that such an operator had a "tin ear".
>
> unqte
>
> With a nice start this eve of 539  he is slowly building up, after a dip
> into the noise @1840UTC.
> Considering the setup here in a QRM urban area he is doing fine.
> Jan/pa3abk
>



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