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Re: [CQ-Contest] DUMB CUT NUMBER

To: "'Steve Harrison'" <k0xp@dandy.net>, "'Eric Hilding'" <b38@hilding.com>, <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] DUMB CUT NUMBER
From: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Reply-to: vo1he@rac.ca
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:26:14 -0000
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Thanks.

I agree. I can figure out most cut numbers but it would really help if they
were standardized. It throws you off for a second when you get something you
weren't expecting.

73 -- Paul VO1HE  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Harrison [mailto:k0xp@dandy.net] 
> Sent: February 17, 2008 13:31
> To: PAUL PIERCEY; Eric Hilding; cq-contest@contesting.com
> Cc: nccc@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] DUMB CUT NUMBER
> 
> At 08:07 AM 2/17/2008 -0800, PAUL PIERCEY wrote:
> >Yeah, I worked him too but figured it was 1K.
> >
> >I did get a '2K' from a OM station. I listened for a while 
> and that's 
> >what
> he was giving. Honesty in contesting perhaps :)
> >
> >Now I need to ask...
> >
> >If someone sends you 1000, can you enter KW or should you enter what 
> >you receive? This begs the question that if you must enter what you 
> >receive, then ATT, NN, NNN, K, KW, 1OO, AK, etc must be the 
> report, n'est ce pas?
> 
> As DX, you are to send your power level... that can obviously 
> be in any language or format you choose. One thousand 
> (spelled out, maybe in Spanish, French, or Russian, or 
> whatever): 1K: AK: 1000, etc. ad nauseum. It's up to the 
> receiver to "interpret" what was sent as being a power level 
> and record it as such. If you can't interpret as sent, it's 
> up to YOU to ask for clarification.
> 
> Steve, K0XP
> 

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