JATKO:[CQ-Contest] X5 Prefix

[Alan Braun]

In <9705258672.AA867261719 at mail-out.un.org>, on 06/25/97 
   at 12:53 PM, Alex_van_Eijk_at_DPKO-UNAVEM at un.org said:

>>Subject: JATKO:[CQ-Contest] X5 Prefix
>>Author:  "Klimoff Timo" <timo.klimoff at ktm.vn.fi> at internet
>>Date:    25/06/97 08:48
>>
>>X5's are pirates, because it is an unlegal prefix (like 1B).
>>But for contest purposes, I have edited my CQWW.CTY file: X5 as YU. 
>>Does anyone know if X5s have Yugoslavian license ??

>If you want to "correct" it in your CQWW.CTY file, do it properly: X5 
>equals T9. They should have Bosnian licenses.

>What do they say? If you insist long enough with a lie, it becomes the 
>truth.....

>73, Alex D25L (PA3DZN)

Maybe they SHOULD have Bosnian licenses, but they don't.  Right now, at least
for ARRL/DXCC purposes, X5 counts for NOTHING.  Not Bosnia, not Yugoslavia.
NOTHING.   Don't waste your time on them.


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>From Zack Lau <zlau at arrl.org>  Thu Jun 26 14:20:27 1997
From: Zack Lau <zlau at arrl.org> (Zack Lau)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 09:20:27 -0400
Subject: [CQ-Contest] AA: stop WHINING
References: <5ossf9$u0l at mgate.arrl.org>
Message-ID: <33B26C9B.57F4 at arrl.org>

Douglas Zwiebel wrote:
> 
> I'm really having some trouble believing what I
> am reading here.  Some entrants are upset that
> a contest sponsor HAS THE NERVE to run a contest
> that CT doesn't support?  GET REAL guys/gals!
> Since when is CT (or any other software) THE
> STANDARD for how contests should be crafted?
> Look...if it is in the RULES and your software
> doesn't support it, but you want to ENTER or
> even be competitive....THEN FOLLOW THE RULES
> and find another way (paper?).  I must say that

Does anyone know which contests require metric
(A11?) paper submissions as opposed to 8.5 x 11
inches?  

I know someone who got DQed for using the 
"American Standard."

--Zack W1VT  zlau at arrl.org


> thinking (and I use the term loosely) that since
> CT is so "common" and therefore its format would be
> accepted in lieu of the REQUIRED format is BEYOND
> the bounds of rational logic.  Why do you think
> they (any sponsor) publish RULES?


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