As Bud Hippisley, W2RU, so eloquently said, if not in so many words, SS CW has
many charms.
One of those charms is the check: The year the *operator* was first licensed.
The SS rule says (and has always said):
4.4. Check (the last two digits of the year you were first licensed):
That's *you*, NOT the station. So, according to the rules, it always has been
legal for a multi-op station to change Check as operators change. In fact, it's
mandatory, per the rule.
I am not a lawyer, but to me, "you" means a person, not a station. Kind of like
what the definition of "is" is.
As for what name you use in the Sprints, well, what's in a name? (Shakespeare
wrote that). It's whatever you want to be called and you can change it. But you
can't change the year of your amateur radio birth, which is a fact.
After 40-plus years of SS I have a lot of people's Checks memorized. I'm sure
I'm not alone in that.
Jim Cain, K1TN/9, CK 61
_______________________________________________
CQ-Contest mailing list
CQ-Contest@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
|