- 1. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: aa5au at bellsouth.net (Don Hill AA5AU)
- Date: Mon Aug 18 15:58:43 2003
- SARTG WW RTTY Contest Call: AA5AU Operator(s): AA5AU Station: AA5AU Class: SOAB HP QTH: LA Operating Time (hrs): 15.5 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Pts Mults -- 80: 10 100 11 40: 40 470 29 20: 219
- /archives//html/RTTY/2002-11/msg00237.html (9,156 bytes)
- 2. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: k4ww at arrl.net (Shelby Summerville)
- Date: Mon Aug 18 20:12:27 2003
- "Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au@bellsouth.net> wrote: "What really pushed me to compete hard in the last two periods was a US station with a 5 callsign not signing / portable the area he was in." Until conte
- /archives//html/RTTY/2002-11/msg00239.html (7,795 bytes)
- 3. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: w2up at mindspring.com (Barry )
- Date: Mon Aug 18 21:11:00 2003
- I thought it WAS required. I had some time available last weekend, and was considering operating SARTG, but decided not to when I saw that rule about signing portable. International contest sponsors
- /archives//html/RTTY/2002-11/msg00242.html (8,640 bytes)
- 4. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: aa5au at bellsouth.net (Don Hill AA5AU)
- Date: Mon Aug 18 21:28:22 2003
- It makes for a good argument either way. I understand a station not wanting to sign portable/call area. However, if call area locations are going to be multipliers, then stations should sign portable
- /archives//html/RTTY/2002-11/msg00243.html (10,169 bytes)
- 5. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: k5ww at wcsonline.net (Gert E. Janssens)
- Date: Mon Aug 18 22:23:56 2003
- The rules for SARTG say: "NOTE: Stations operating from call areas other than their call ID, are asked to use '/x' for their actual call area, i.e. K5DJ/1." The word "asked" often gets "misinterprete
- /archives//html/RTTY/2002-11/msg00246.html (9,474 bytes)
- 6. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: llindblom at juno.com (llindblom@juno.com)
- Date: Tue Aug 19 10:13:17 2003
- As always it seems many North Americans only understand imperatives like "must" or "shall." My all time favorites are the stations who sometimes sign portable and sometimes don't. This is typically d
- /archives//html/RTTY/2002-11/msg00247.html (10,271 bytes)
- 7. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: kenb at brookner.com (Ken Brookner)
- Date: Tue Aug 19 10:53:21 2003
- i have a 5-land call and live in 7-land. i don't sign portable under any circumstances anymore. i used to, but caught flack from dx about doing so in contests. because of the various master call data
- /archives//html/RTTY/2002-11/msg00248.html (12,067 bytes)
- 8. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: wrt at dslextreme.com (Bill Turner)
- Date: Tue Aug 19 11:46:33 2003
- On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:53:02 -0700, "Ken Brookner" <kenb@brookner.com> wrote: _________________________________________________________ I agree, also being "out of area". There's nothing wrong with u
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- 9. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: doncassel at compuserve.com (Don Cassel)
- Date: Tue Aug 19 12:03:57 2003
- Okay, I'll be a contrarian. As an outsider I would prefer to see the portable designation. There are times when beam headings are important from here such as when a W6 is really in /1 or some variati
- /archives//html/RTTY/2002-11/msg00250.html (10,822 bytes)
- 10. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: w2up at mindspring.com (Barry )
- Date: Tue Aug 19 12:13:32 2003
- Let me get this straight. You mean signing "portable" is just a suggestion, not a requirement? What's the point of a contest rule if it's optional? How about: If running high power, it is asked that
- /archives//html/RTTY/2002-11/msg00251.html (11,542 bytes)
- 11. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: llindblom at juno.com (llindblom@juno.com)
- Date: Tue Aug 19 12:52:58 2003
- Based on my experience from living in deferent localities both in and outside of the USA, "asked" in the USA is treated as a suggestion. In other areas "asked" is considered an imperative or shall do
- /archives//html/RTTY/2002-11/msg00252.html (11,970 bytes)
- 12. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: wrt at dslextreme.com (Bill Turner)
- Date: Tue Aug 19 13:01:50 2003
- _________________________________________________________ I suggest that if areas are important to contest sponsors, they make them part of the exchange instead of part of the call. Many contests alr
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- 13. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: dj3iw at t-online.de (DJ3IW Goetz)
- Date: Tue Aug 19 13:06:09 2003
- Hello, following this thread, the subject of signing call/x seems to be a real problem for (some?) stateside contesters. Barry, W2UP requested "International contest sponsors need to realize that the
- /archives//html/RTTY/2002-11/msg00254.html (14,691 bytes)
- 14. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: wrt at dslextreme.com (Bill Turner)
- Date: Tue Aug 19 13:13:14 2003
- _________________________________________________________ If the rules for a foreign-sponsored contest are published in English for English-speaking people, there is an implied requirement to have th
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- 15. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: chen at mac.com (Kok Chen)
- Date: Tue Aug 19 13:43:12 2003
- Hi Goetz, I guess there are three things you can do for contests which uses call areas as mults. 1) make it mandatory to send the call area as a portable if the contester is out of area. I have mysel
- /archives//html/RTTY/2002-11/msg00256.html (9,202 bytes)
- 16. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: wrt at dslextreme.com (Bill Turner)
- Date: Tue Aug 19 13:46:57 2003
- On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:05:03 -0000, dj3iw@t-online.de (DJ3IW Goetz) wrote: Yes, but through the "vanity" program, callsigns can easily be changed to whatever the applicant wants. I expect the FCC som
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- 17. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: s57aw at hamradio.si (Robert Bajuk)
- Date: Tue Aug 19 14:48:27 2003
- Hello, I agree with Goetz at that point. We - non USA hams are sometimes in a very ungrateful situation when trying to make contest rules equal as much as possible for all the contestants. We would l
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- 18. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: w2up at mindspring.com (Barry )
- Date: Tue Aug 19 14:57:05 2003
- Hi Goetz, About 25(?) years ago, our FCC dropped the signing portable requirement. At one time, prior to that, it was required to sign /x. It was also required to notify the FCC of portable operation
- /archives//html/RTTY/2002-11/msg00262.html (16,755 bytes)
- 19. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: dk3vn at nexgo.de (Waldemar DK3VN)
- Date: Tue Aug 19 15:40:19 2003
- Griiiiiiiiin! ~:) ~:) ~:) Double U's and DL's are more similar, than most people believe and we have learned, that we DL's are living in "Old Europe". ~:) 73 de Waldemar, DK3VN -- Check RWRL on http:
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- 20. [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score (score: 1)
- Author: dj3iw at t-online.de (DJ3IW Goetz)
- Date: Tue Aug 19 15:58:23 2003
- Hello, there have been many polite and considerate answers to my mail on this subject - thank you all! I will make it a discussion item at an upcoming meeting of the DL-DX RTTY Contest sponsors. 73 d
- /archives//html/RTTY/2002-11/msg00265.html (8,458 bytes)
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