Don't forget the special callsign DX1S also = DX IS. I think that was in
2001 or so.
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 8:26 AM, Bob Shohet, KQ2M <kq2m@kq2m.com> wrote:
> I didn’t get it at the time (duh!), but it certainly makes sense now. The
> contest organizers will deal with it. As contest ops it is our “prime
> directive” to copy what is sent – so on that front, fine! TT, or LOW, is
> not much different than two EU stations sending me 25 and 50 mw as their
> power back in the 1987 ARRLDXCW, on 40 meters no less!
>
> I was surprised and pleased to see NP4Z, NP4G, KP4KE and others on from
> Puerto Rico - their being on sends the most powerful statement of all.
> I wish them them all the best in their continuing recovery!
>
> Other interesting and “sign of the times” related callsigns:
>
> In the 1978 ARRLDXCW I worked “special events” stations :-) C3PO and
> R2D2 (the year after the original Star Wars came out)
>
> In a later ARRLDXCW contest I worked US0OUT, sometime during the Russian
> occupation of Afghanistan
>
> And of course, RG6U, C0AX, FO0L and F0OL, Z1LCH, ID1IOT and PH00EY!
>
> 73
>
> Bob KQ2M
>
>
> From: Ron Notarius W3WN
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2018 8:25 AM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What's with the power = 0 watts exchange?
>
> While I have the utmost sympathy to our fellow Amateurs in PR, I'm not
> certain that the ARRL DX contest is the appropriate place to make a
> political statement.
>
> If that is indeed what the "00" power was meant to indicate... well, how
> many got the reference? If it only sewed confusion, it didn't serve the
> intended goal. If someone simply logged it and moved on without another
> thought, it didn't serve the intended goal. If someone did get it... well,
> this isn't the appropriate venue to discuss political shenanigans either.
>
> 73, ron W3WN
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
> To: cq-contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Sent: Mon, Feb 19, 2018 8:17 am
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What's with the power = 0 watts exchange?
>
>
> On 2/18/2018 4:14 PM, rjairam@gmail.com wrote: > My guess, just a guess -
> is that the puerto rico folks are protesting > the situation on the
> territory where they have NO POWER. This is exactly right. Rusty posted
> this on the NCCC reflector yesterday. = = = = = = both NP4Z and
> NP4G are making statements that commercial power has still not been
> restored in much of Puerto Rico following last year's big storms, thus
> "power is zero". 73 de Rusty, W6OAT
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