[CQ-Contest] How to log an air mobile station in ARRL-10 contest?

[Oliver Dröse]

Hi Dave,

many thanks for the clarification how the log checking works. So I will log him 
with the region. Actually it is already this way in the log but not sent to the 
robot yet. Had to struggle with N1MMLogger as it neither allowed to log W4KZ/AM 
with serial number nor region (was awaiting a US state) so had to edit 
afterwards anyway. ;-))

Thanks again & vy 73, Olli - DH8BQA



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Pruett" <k8cc at comcast.net>
To: "Oliver Dröse" <droese at necg.de>
Cc: <contests at arrl.org>; <CQ-Contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:51 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How to log an air mobile station in ARRL-10 contest?


> Oliver,
>
> I'm the guy who checks the 10M logs (or perhaps more precisely, the guys
> who wrote the software that I execute to check the 10M logs), so here is
> the what we have been checking to.
>
> I agree with you that the rules seem strangely silent on the subject of
> aeronautical mobiles.  No, I did not write the rules.  OTOH, in the ten
> or so years I've been checking the logs for this contest, there have
> only been a handful of QSOs reported with aeronautical mobile stations,
> so it's not an issue with big impact.
>
> Philosophically, if you allow maritime mobiles, why not aeronautical
> mobiles since both type share similar characteristics.  So log it in the
> same way as a maritime mobile.  Our logchecking software requires any
> QSO with a callsign ending in "/MM" or ("/AM") to have a region
> designator as the received exchange; that is, it must be "R1", "R2" or
> "R3".  The "R" allows us to identify it as a region, not a QSO number.
>
> 73, Dave Pruett, K8CC
>
>
> Oliver Dröse wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I worked a station /am in a plane during the ARRL 10 m contest. He sent me a
>> serial number as well as the IARU region he was flying in.
>>
>> Now how do I log this contact? With serial number or region? The rules are 
>> clear
>> concerning maritime mobile (/mm) operations but no mention concerning air
>> mobile. And if with region which format to use? For region 2 just input "2" 
>> as
>> the exchange or rather "R2"? How do you distinguish between as serial number 
>> and
>> a region number?
>>
>> To make it even more interesting: For maritime mobile contacts the IARU 
>> region
>> sent is a multiplier. How about the air mobile station then?
>>
>> Any advice?
>>
>> Vy 73, Olli - DH8BQA
>>
>>
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