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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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