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From: karn@mouton.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: DX contest simulator
Message-ID: <161@mouton.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 12:27:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 26 12:27:14 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Sep-84 06:13:44 EDT
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The product you're referring to is called "Dr. DX" and is sold by
AEA. I learned about this wonderful little gimmick during a visit
to ARRL HQ the other week.

It turns out that the AEA people love to play practical jokes with
this thing, and it is remarkable how many people they had absolutely
fooled at Dayton.  One Japanese amateur radio company representative's
eyes almost popped out when he apparently saw the AEA guy working
a DX pileup using a ball-point-pen as the "antenna".

Perhaps this says something about the intellectual challenge level
of working CW DX?

Phil