[CQ-Contest] Check in SS

[Kelly Taylor]

Can we please stop pickin' the pepper on this?

We've heard from the ONLY entity whose opinion matters: the contest sponsor.

The contest sponsor's interpretation of the rule is that you pick a check 
and send it for the entire contest. And in that interpretation there was no 
mention of mandatory check changes each time the op changes at a multiop.

The people who write the rules should have a say in how they're interpreted. 
The other speculation that's been posted here is just that. Speculation.

And remember, when you enter a League contest (as in submitting a log 
intended to enter, not as a check log) you agree to be bound by the League's 
decision. The League's decision is that the actual number you choose as a 
check only need be consistent throughout that contest. It does not 
necessarily have to coincide with your actual ham birth. If you want it to 
(I do) then go ahead. If someone doesn't wish it to, so be it.

And this was the League's interpretation of only one rule, so please, let's 
not suggest it amounts to anarchy.

As Hans said before: Next subject please.

73, kelly
ve4xt


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Cain" <cainjim at mindspring.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 10:38 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Check in SS


> As Bud Hippisley, W2RU, so eloquently said, if not in so many words, SS CW 
> has many charms.
>
> One of those charms is the check: The year the *operator* was first 
> licensed.
>
> The SS rule says (and has always said):
>
> 4.4. Check (the last two digits of the year you were first licensed):
>
> That's *you*, NOT the station. So, according to the rules, it always has 
> been legal for a multi-op station to change Check as operators change. In 
> fact, it's mandatory, per the rule.
>
> I am not a lawyer, but to me, "you" means a person, not a station. Kind of 
> like what the definition of "is" is.
>
> As for what name you use in the Sprints, well, what's in a name? 
> (Shakespeare wrote that). It's whatever you want to be called and you can 
> change it. But you can't change the year of your amateur radio birth, 
> which is a fact.
>
> After 40-plus years of SS I have a lot of people's Checks memorized. I'm 
> sure I'm not alone in that.
>
> Jim Cain, K1TN/9, CK 61
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