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   > On Thu  6-Nov-2025  6:32a, Jimmy Anderson@1:105/7.0 said to Rug Rat:   
      
   >  You might be a bit disapointed then with POTA, as the majority of the   
   > contacts with POTA operators are very contestest like, in that they are out   
   > there to make as many contacts as possible within the time of their   
   > activation.  At the same time there are a lot of people waiting to make   
   > contact with them.  Very rarely will they take the time to "TALK TO YOU"...   
   > It is exchange contact information, and off to the next station.  The   
   > majority of DX is like that is well.  That is not to say I have not had   
   > longer QSO with either, but it is not the norm.   
      
   > Rug Rat (Brent Hendricks)   
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   Brent, While reading your post I thought about one Field Day just after I got   
   home from being in the Navy .   
      
   I served as a Radioman, anyway at the FD site I sit next to a OT CW OPR doing   
   the Dupe Log.   
   After some time where he was asured I was copying Calls as well as he heard   
   them and letting him know if the station wasn't a dupe he got to where he   
   didn't ask me if the station calling CQ FD  had ben worked or not.   
   He accepted my assistance    
   Some years later I heard him talking on 75M phone about needing a variable   
   capacitor out of an old AM radio.   
   I had one in my junk box and broke in to the QSO and told him so and where I   
   lived.   
   He came by ,got the junk radio , chewed the fat a bit and went on his way.   
   One hams junk was another hams treasure    
   73 de Ed W9ODR .  .   
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