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

[Zack Widup]

The section where you are located is used as a multiplier in calculating 
your score. 

The check is not used in calculating your score; it is just a number you 
need to copy accurately as it was sent.  It doesn't even enter into a 
category in comparing scores, as the "A", B"", "Q" etc. are. So it is in 
fact just a number and as far as I'm concerned just needs to be copied 
accurately. The  only impact it cold have on your score is when you don't 
copy it correctly.

Maybe we should change this; in addition to a clean sweep, you could get a 
mug for copying all years in the check from say 1920 to 2006.  :-)

73, Zack W9SZ

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, John Geiger wrote:

> Exactly.  Why not just change the section you send
> every year.  I would probably get alot more calls
> sending NT or NL than OK.
> 
> 73s John W5TD
> 
> --- Shelby Summerville <k4ww at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> > K0HB wrote; "Check variable from year to year"
> > 
> > IMHO, unless the "last two digits of the year you
> > were first licensed);" is
> > also "variable",  there is no option in the rules
> > for the check to be
> > "variable"?
> > 
> > >From the rules: "4.4. Check (the last two digits of
> > the year you were first
> > licensed);"
> > 
> > C'Ya, Shelby - K4WW