Let's please let the "thou shalt only send the correct check" thread die,
please.
It's just so totally NOT important.
73, kelly
ve4xt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zack Widup" <w9sz@prairienet.org>
To: "John Geiger" <johngeig@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Shelby Summerville" <k4ww@arrl.net>; "CQ-Contest"
<CQ-Contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Sweepstakes: Should I be penalized
forgettingmylicense in 2000?
>
> The section where you are located is used as a multiplier in calculating
> your score.
>
> The check is not used in calculating your score; it is just a number you
> need to copy accurately as it was sent. It doesn't even enter into a
> category in comparing scores, as the "A", B"", "Q" etc. are. So it is in
> fact just a number and as far as I'm concerned just needs to be copied
> accurately. The only impact it cold have on your score is when you don't
> copy it correctly.
>
> Maybe we should change this; in addition to a clean sweep, you could get a
> mug for copying all years in the check from say 1920 to 2006. :-)
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, John Geiger wrote:
>
>> Exactly. Why not just change the section you send
>> every year. I would probably get alot more calls
>> sending NT or NL than OK.
>>
>> 73s John W5TD
>>
>> --- Shelby Summerville <k4ww@arrl.net> wrote:
>>
>> > K0HB wrote; "Check variable from year to year"
>> >
>> > IMHO, unless the "last two digits of the year you
>> > were first licensed);" is
>> > also "variable", there is no option in the rules
>> > for the check to be
>> > "variable"?
>> >
>> > >From the rules: "4.4. Check (the last two digits of
>> > the year you were first
>> > licensed);"
>> >
>> > C'Ya, Shelby - K4WW
>
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