Hi all, hi contest committee , Randy, sorry if this has been asked before. I worked KL7HM who is in Arizona, zone 3. He was sending out "KL7HM" as callsign, and Win-Test recorded this as Alaska, with
You should log the call and zone sent. Your logging program suggested a zone but what was sent is what must be logged. _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Conte
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:49:40 +0100
Always check the zone the log program suggests(!) before you hit the "enter" button, esspecially with stations from countries divided in several CQ zones such as the US, Canada en Russia. In other pa
This question has come up several times so I will answer it here. You should log the call sign as sent. The log checking software will handle placing the call in the right country (or judging if the
Thank you for the answers, I anticipated this answer from Randy and I really understand what the CQWW contest committee wants. Really Win-Test should solve this issue - good old CT had a function whe
<<Really Win-Test should solve this issue - good old CT had a function where you could assign a different DXCC country from the QSO entry line (you just type callsign=dxcc/enter).>> Wintest used to b
I am ancient enough to remember that when my parents moved us to a new house about three blocks away I had to sign WA9AUM/9 for months until the FCC finally changed my license. Now, I would have no p
Long ago, I suggested to the FCC that one simple solution would have been to double up the number in the callsign, at least for the continental 48, so I'd be W51GN if I operated for one-land. (And WP
I'm missing the solution part of that. How would that be any different than signing W5GN/1, other than having one less character and making things more ambiguous for logging programs since many count
Nice thought, but those calls are used on low-power commercial TV stations and in other non-Amateur services. 73 Long ago, I suggested to the FCC that one simple solution would have been to double up
Barry... It was just much too simple and logical for the government... Now if you had suggested something like **W51GN/"state"/** that would probably have worked. By the way the ** would be include
Barry, W51GN? What sort of drug-induced, hallucinatory state were you in when you came up with that idea? Oh...never mind. Answered my own question. Doug _____________________________________________
True conversations from Alaska. CQ 20 meters KL7RA "are you in Alaska?" Yeah, why do you have to ask? "the last six were not and I'm trying for WAS." CQ contest KL7RA "kl7xyz" KL7XYZ 59 one "59 three