Beacon code question

[Bruce Riggs]

Took of from Point Lookout, MO (PLK) this afternoon, VFR to Dallas
Addison (ADS). Requested VFR advirsories from Razorback Approach, and
they gave me a squak code of 1070. Razorback said they could not receive
my transponder, could only track my primary target. Once I was
switched to Fort Worth center, they read my mode C just fine, and said
Razorback had an ARTS problem, and could not track beacon codes with a
third digit of 7. No further problems into Dallas.

Question: assuming Razorback knew this (which FWC said they did), why
did they give me this code that they knew they could not track?

Thanks,
Bruce Riggs

[Dave Butler]

Bruce Riggs wrote:
> Took of from Point Lookout, MO (PLK) this afternoon, VFR to Dallas
> Addison (ADS). Requested VFR advirsories from Razorback Approach, and
> they gave me a squak code of 1070. Razorback said they could not receive
> my transponder, could only track my primary target. Once I was
> switched to Fort Worth center, they read my mode C just fine, and said
> Razorback had an ARTS problem, and could not track beacon codes with a
> third digit of 7. No further problems into Dallas.
>
> Question: assuming Razorback knew this (which FWC said they did), why
> did they give me this code that they knew they could not track?

I give up. Incompetence?

[JM]

Bruce Riggs > wrote:

>Question: assuming Razorback knew this (which FWC said they did), why
>did they give me this code that they knew they could not track?

Because the controller was a trainee and his supervisor was five miles
away trying to run a whistle-blower off the road.

[Aluckyguess]

Not enough fingers.

Unbelievable

"JM" <jm@anywherenet> wrote in message
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> Bruce Riggs > wrote:
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>>Question: assuming Razorback knew this (which FWC said they did), why
>>did they give me this code that they knew they could not track?
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> Because the controller was a trainee and his supervisor was five miles
> away trying to run a whistle-blower off the road.
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