It didn't help that after MARAC had put their list together, some of the
MARAC people started demanding that all state QSO parties switch to their
abbrevriations.
As I recall, one state QSO party did switch, at least for one year... and it
caused problems for a couple of others when people who THOUGHT the MARAC
abbrevriations were now the "official" ones for ALL state QSO parties.
And then, jumping on the bandwagon where those who claimed that the MARAC
abbrevriations were actually mandated by the ARRL, so of course the
anti-ARRL crowd used that to denounce the League (never let facts get in the
way of a juicy rumor).
It was an ugly, ugly mess before it all died down.
Yes, 'twas a shame. But maybe we should let that sleeping dog lie?
73
-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Julius Fazekas
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 2:09 PM
To: Jim Reisert AD1C
Cc: Dick Frey - K4XU; cq contest
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] multi-contesting
I have a copy of this, and it makes a lot of sense. Of course, if it isn't
adopted, it's still an orphan.
Shame as it took a lot of work to put it together...
Julius Fazekas
N2WN
Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html
Tennessee QSO Party
http://www.tnqp.org/
Elecraft K2/100 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366
--- On Mon, 3/23/09, Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] multi-contesting
> To: "Julius Fazekas" <phriendly1@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "cq contest" <CQ-Contest@contesting.com>, "Dick Frey - K4XU"
<k4xu@arrl.net>
> Date: Monday, March 23, 2009, 1:45 PM
> W0QE proposed a standard set of
> abbreviations for the MARAC contest,
> but they have never been adopted by state QSO parties,
> where the state
> is implied, and therefore isn't necessary in the
> abbreviation (except
> for multi-state QSO parties, like NEQP and 7QP).
>
> http://www.bnk.com/W0QE/county_hunting.html
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C (sending COADMS for the first time)
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Julius Fazekas <phriendly1@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Now if we could have standard County abbreviations so
> we can play in MARAC this weekend as well, with little
> difficulty...
>
>
> --
> Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>,
> http://www.ad1c.us
>
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