[CQ-Contest] The Insanity of Cut Numbers in Serial Number Contests

[K8MR via CQ-Contest]

Don't get down too much on cut serial numbers. It could be worse - cut number grid squares.


See you in the Stew Perry from ENNA. 




73  -  Jim   K8MR      (Located in Grid Square  ENNA)






-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Harpole <hs0zcw at gmail.com>
To: Ktfrog007 <Ktfrog007 at aol.com>
Cc: Tom Osborne <w7why at frontier.com>; CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, Dec 15, 2014 3:42 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] The Insanity of Cut Numbers in Serial Number Contests


If I get cut numbers, I just do not log the contact... NIL.
My location takes me out of scoring competition, so now I play by my own
rules.

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:
>
> Well, maybe they have to, to save time.
>
> The worst thing I ever heard was 4T100MP sending their call as  4T1TTMP.
> Of course, it could have been even worse as 4TATTMP, a  really bad ATTeMPt.
>
> I wrote them an email chastising them.  Never heard back.
>
> 73,
> Ken, AB1J
>
>
> In a message dated 12/15/2014 17:23:32 GMT Standard Time,
> w7why at frontier.com writes:
>
> What I  think is funny is a station that has a callsign like 'XX2014IARU'
> will use  cut numbers to 'save time' :-)  73
> Tom  W7WHY