Kelly,
I have to agree. Callsign borrowing leads to more interesting prefixes in
WPX contest.
I had a surreal experience in 2004 when I was operating in WPX SSB as P40Y
from Aruba. I was being QRMed unintentionally by a close stateside station,
and it turned out to be me (that is, a friend using my callsign, AE6Y, with
my permission)! It was very strange to be asking myself to move.
73, andy, ae6y
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelly Taylor" <ve4xt@mts.net>
To: <k1ttt@arrl.net>; "'cq-contest'" <CQ-Contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 2006 SSB WPX
> Personally, I think the callsign borrowing thing is much ado about
> nothing.
>
> To quote Charlie Sheen in Ferris Bueller's Day Off: "You could ditch."
>
> If there's nothing stopping Ham A from doing it, there's nothing stopping
> you from doing it either. Just like there's nothing stopping me from
> applying for (and paying $60 for) a vanity, temporary use callsign such as
> VC4C or XM4M. If I choose not to do that, I can't rightly then complain
> about the person who does.
>
> One thing I always liked about WPX is that the multipliers are almost
> endless. Even WW has finite limits on mults. For every person who puts a
> unique px on the air, that's one more mult for you to work. That, at
> least,
> is positive.
>
> 73, kelly
> ve4xt
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