[CQ-Contest] SS CW question

[Georgek5kg at aol.com]

You can view "year first licensed" sort of like "year first born".   You 
wouldn't ask "first born as what?"  That would be ridiculous, so why  ask 
"first licensed as what...novice, general...etc?"
 
FWIW...73, Geo
 
George  Wagner, K5KG
Sarasota, FL  

 
In a message dated 11/9/2010 6:10:28 A.M. Canada Central Standard Ti,  
wn3vaw at verizon.net writes:

Aw,  c'mon Zack.  "First licensed" means first licensed, period.

It's  bad enough we have people picking random numbers because they can get
away  with it.  Let's not muddy the waters  further.

73

-----Original Message-----
From:  cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com]  On Behalf Of Zack Widup
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 9:28 PM
To: CQ  Contest
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] SS CW question

The rules don't  specify for the check the year you were first licensed as a
WHAT. I suppose  I could legally use the year I was first licensed as a
Novice, as a  General, as an Extra, or maybe even the year I was first
licensed as W9SZ.  They are all different.
But I've been sticking with the same year for a  long time. It's engrained
into me so I just automatically send it  now.
:-)

73, Zack W9SZ


On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:08 PM,  Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:

> The thing that sets SS  apart from other QSO-fests like CQWW is that the
> exchange is not a  predictable "fye nye foe" and that software cannot
> auto-populate the  log.  It is a test of Radioman Skills (tm).
>
> With that in  mind, some of us have bad memories and cannot reliably be
> counted on  to send the same number as we sent you last year, thus
> confounding  those who depend on databases to avoid actually copying what
we
>  actually send.
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
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>  -----Original Message-----
> From: John Geiger
> Sent: Monday,  November 08, 2010 11:05 PM
> To: Joe ; KI9A at aol.com ;  cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] SS CW  question
>
> Joe,
>
> I agree completely on the check  issue. The rules are pretty plain on what
> the check is.  If it  was any number you choose, the rules would say "The
> check is any  number you choose"
>
> 73s John  AA5JG
>
>
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