On 11/9/97 1:01 AM, Kelly Taylor at ve4xt@mb.sympatico.ca wrote:
>So, has anyone thought about the Year 2000 thing and how this will affect
>SS?
An amusing thought, but not really a problem.
>Will we have to start sending 4-digit checks, or is this not a problem
>until the century is old enough that amateur radio itself is 100? (After
>all, it is not possible for any station to have been first licensed in
>1900, but I do remember working some stations whose checks were in the
>10s and 20s.)
It isn't important to know exactly what year the check represents. So, in
15 years, we won't know if a check of 12 means 1912 or 2012. The
important thing is that the check is unique to each station.
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This begs a question -- when you guest op, whose check do you use? When I
operated from KM9P in 1995, I used Bill's check of 77, instead of mine -
75. But I've seen others guest ops using their own check.
Opinions?
Perhaps it doesn't matter so long as you send the information in to the
ARRL....
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@radio.org
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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