[CQ-Contest] RULES ARE RULES

[Mike Gilmer - N2MG]

That's easy!  It's to mimic the preamble of the 
standard radiogram.

Go to 
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/forms/fsd218.html
for details.

>From that page, the datagram preamble consists of 

a. Number (begin with 1 each month or year) 
b. Precedence (R, W, P or EMERGENCY) 
c. Handling Instructions (optional, see text) 
d. Station of Origin (first amateur handler) 
e. Check (number of words/groups in text only) 
f. Place of Origin (not necessarily location of 
station of origin.) 

So, the SS exchange copies this almost exactly 
(leaving out the optional part c).

73 Mike N2MG


On Tue, 20 November 2001, "Don Munson" wrote:

> 
> 
> Can I ask a question?  I worked a little of the sweepstakes and I saw the
> original post.  Can someone explain why the callsign is part of the
> exchange?
> 
> I found it quite cumbersome to make a contact using my name (sometimes
> having to repeat to get through QRM/QRN/Low signals) only to put my call
> into the "required" exchange.  I can see the serial number, check number and
> section - not the callsign.  To what purpose is it there?
> 
> Don, W4GFQ

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