[CQ-Contest] Sweepstakes: Should I be penalized forgettingmylicense in 2000?

[Dale Martin]

> 
> I was actually told by someone in ARRL once that the check is 
> just a number and they don't really care if it is in fact the 
> year you were first licensed or not, as long as you stick 
> with the same number for that contest. I have a feeling that 
> e-mail was lost, though, when I had a hard drive crash a 
> couple years ago.
> 
> I think most people stick with the year they were first 
> licensed, though. 
> I do.
> 
> 73, Zack W9SZ
 

Well, Zack, I heard that as soon as you are licensed, the check is made a
part of your permanent record.  You know, the one that dogs your trail since
junior high school.  It's that big, thick folder the cops on Law & Order
slap down on the table in front of the suspect in the interrogation room and
then say something like "You killed 37 people AND you used a check different
than any you had used before in SS CW ." 

You don't want to go messing with your check. 


73,
Dale, kg5u