I agree. Furthermore, there should be some unique morsel of traffic, perhaps
a unique, non-sequential serial number or something like that, in contest
exchanges that could not be predicted or known before the contact was made.
That'd make you sit up an listen :)
73 -- Paul VO1HE
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of K0HB
> Sent: November 10, 2006 00:41
> To: John Geiger; CQ-Contest
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Check in SS
>
> To give you something to copy!
>
> The beauty of SS is that you have to actually copy something
> that the computer program can't automagically figure out from
> your call prefix. In
> other words, you get the info over the radio, not from your
> computer. As
> compared to (for instance) CQWW where the ONLY thing you need
> to copy is the callsign and CT (for example) fills in all the
> other blanks.
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
> --
> ><{{{{*> http://www.home.earthlink.net/~k0hb
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: John Geiger <johngeig@yahoo.com>
> > To: <k-zero-hb@earthlink.net>; CQ-Contest
> <CQ-Contest@contesting.com>
> > Date: 11/9/2006 11:22:17 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Check in SS
> >
> > Then why keep it in the exchange?
> >
> > --- K0HB <k-zero-hb@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Rather than wonder about it, I asked "the Desk".
> > > Nobody checks with FCC and you won't be DQ'd for the
> wrong check in
> > > SS.
> > >
> > > Next subject?
> > >
> > > de Hans, K0HB
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Hans,
> > > Many amateurs like to let others know when they were
> first licensed.
> > > The exchange during the SS gives them an opportunity to
> do so. There
> > > are, however, many folks out there that don't remember what that
> > > date was or choose not to divulge it for personal reasons. That's
> > > OK. For log checking purposes it is important to use the
> same check
> > > number during the entire contest.
> > >
> > > 73,
> > > Tom Hogerty, KC1J
> > > ARRL Contests
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From: K0HB [mailto:k-zero-hb@earthlink.net]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:05 PM
> > > To: Contest; Contest; cac
> > > Subject: "Check" in SS?
> > >
> > > Does anybody at the contest desk really give a rip what "check" I
> > > send in SS, so long as I use the same one all weekend long?
> > >
> > > 73, de Hans, K0HB
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