[CQ-Contest] What's with the power = 0 watts exchange?

[Bob Shohet, KQ2M]

I didn’t get it at the time (duh!), but it certainly makes sense now.  The contest organizers will deal with it.  As contest ops it is our “prime directive” to copy what is sent – so on that front, fine!   TT, or LOW, is not much different than two EU stations sending me 25 and 50 mw as their power back in the 1987 ARRLDXCW, on 40 meters no less!  

I was surprised and pleased to see NP4Z, NP4G, KP4KE and others on from Puerto Rico - their being on sends the most powerful statement of all.
I wish them them all the best in their continuing recovery!

Other interesting and “sign of the times” related callsigns:

In the 1978 ARRLDXCW  I worked “special events” stations  :-)  C3PO and R2D2 (the year after the original Star Wars came out)

In a later ARRLDXCW contest I worked US0OUT, sometime during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan

And of course, RG6U, C0AX, FO0L and F0OL, Z1LCH, ID1IOT and PH00EY!

73

Bob KQ2M


From: Ron Notarius W3WN 
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2018 8:25 AM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com 
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What's with the power = 0 watts exchange?

While I have the utmost sympathy to our fellow Amateurs in PR, I'm not certain that the ARRL DX contest is the appropriate place to make a political statement.

If that is indeed what the "00" power was meant to indicate... well, how many got the reference?   If it only sewed confusion, it didn't serve the intended goal.  If someone simply logged it and moved on without another thought, it didn't serve the intended goal.  If someone did get it... well, this isn't the appropriate venue to discuss political shenanigans either.

73, ron W3WN





-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, Feb 19, 2018 8:17 am
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What's with the power = 0 watts exchange?


On 2/18/2018 4:14 PM, rjairam at gmail.com wrote: > My guess, just a guess - is that the puerto rico folks are protesting > the situation on the territory where they have NO POWER. This is exactly right. Rusty posted this on the NCCC reflector yesterday. =   =   =   =   =   = both NP4Z and NP4G are making statements that commercial power has still not been restored in much of Puerto Rico following last year's big storms, thus "power is zero". 73 de Rusty, W6OAT _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest at contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
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