[CQ-Contest] CK in ARRL SS

[Mike Fatchett W0MU]

The ck should be a two digit number that is chosen prior to the contest.  I
would add that the ck should be changed from contest to contest and year to
year to discourage any after contest massaging of data or people using data
from previous years contests.

The year licensed has no bearing in the contest other than being a piece of
information to be passed.  Why would the Operator on the other end care if I
sent 01 or 99?  Copy what is sent.

I would also love to get to a place where the logs were locked after the
contest so you were unable to do anything with it.  The contest is over.
What is in the log is what you got.  If you have corrections you should be
fixing them during the contest not after as this could be considered
operating time, yes?


On 11/7/07 9:29 AM, "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Sorry, I was half-asleep when I wrote this.
> 
> My intent is to tie the CK to the callsign used in the contest, not to
> the operator(s) who may be using that callsign.  Maybe this wording is
> closer to my intent:
> 
> CK represents the last two digits of the year that the station whose
> callsign is being used in the contest was first licensed.
> 
> 
> On 11/7/2007 8:06 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>> I would like to propose a modification to the ARRL Sweepstakes rules,
>> specifically:
>> 
>> 4.4. Check (the last two digits of the year you were first licensed);
>> 
>> Can this be changed to "(the last two digits of the year the callsign
>> used in the contest was first issued to the station)?"
>> 
>> This would eliminate the confusion of what CK to send by multi-ops and
>> school stations.
>> 
>> 73 - Jim AD1C
>>