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RE: [RTTY] Another reason NOT to sign "portable"

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Subject: RE: [RTTY] Another reason NOT to sign "portable"
From: "Robert McGwier" <rwmcgwier@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:53:43 -0000
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Barry:

I think this is a complete non-issue, it appears
it is trivial to fix:

https://www.arrl.org/lotw/faq#oldcall


Bob
N4HY


-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com]On
Behalf Of Barry 
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 11:53 AM
To: RTTY
Subject: [RTTY] Another reason NOT to sign "portable"


Besides not being portable, but being at your permanent QTH,
Besides the US not having call areas any longer, except for the 
purposes of FCC issuing a new, sequential callsign,
If you intend to use LOTW for awards, a callsign with a portable 
designator is not the same as the home callsign.

For example, if Bob uploaded his log to LOTW signed as N4HY, and then 
for some strange reason signed N4HY/2 from his home QTH during a 
contest, anyone trying to e-confirm a QSO with N4HY/2 will come up 
empty.

I suggest being consistent. Sign your call one way or the other.  If 
you want to use a portable designator from home, use it all the time. 
If not, don't use it at all (you're not portable, you're home).
Barry, W2UP, at home in PA (not /3)

On 4 Oct 2003 Robert McGwier wrote:

> Before Don sent out a note earlier this year,
> I operated as N4HY in RTTY contests and never
> thought about the problems it might cause others.
> Since Don's note, I have signed N4HY/2.  It cost
> me before I changed.  I lost out on a certificate
> in W2 by failing to sign as and send in my log as
> N4HY/2 in the ANARTS.
> 
> It costs a few ms to sign portable in RTTY
> and my lesson is fully learned.
> 
> Bob
> N4HY
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Barry Kutner, W2UP              Internet: w2up@mindspring.com
Newtown, PA                     Frankford Radio Club
         


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