All those contests use US Call Areas as mults, but they don't require
stations to add their correct call area as a suffix. BARTG is unique in
that outdated requirement.
73,
Paul, N8HM
On 1/9/2013 5:50 AM, pcooper wrote:
Hi all,
Well, thanks for all the responses!
Yes, I do appreciate that the comparison between G, GU etc and W is not a good
one, but it was the only way I could think of explaining it.
Now, several folk kindly emailed me direct to say things like - Yes, but G.GU
etc are different DXCC's, with which I agree.
By the same token, KL7/KH6/KP2 are ALSO different DXCC's, but you still find some in RTTY
contests operating from the "lower 48".
I even got a KH8 in one contest that was on mainland America.
I don't know the answer to this, but does the FCC require that you sign
differently if you are operating away from your home address?
In the UK, if we are operating somewhere other than our designated home address, we must
sign /P for any temporary address, or /A from an "alternative" address, where
the alternative is somewhere designated on our licence.
Let's say that you are W6XXX operating from Florida, and you enter the BARTG
contest as W6XXX only.
If your log was to be classed as a check-log only, because you weren't
following the rules, would you be annoyed?
Maybe contests that use US call areas as mults ought to enforce this part of
the rule?
Apart from the BARTG contest, there is the EA RTTY contest, DL-DX, DRCG LDC,
SARTG, JARTS, and WAEDC all use US (and some also include VE/JA/VK) call areas
as mults, so please don't just single out BARTG for criticism.
Thanks again for all the comments.
73 de Phil GU0SUP
(definitely in GU!)
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