[CQ-Contest] Funny/strange things heard in 'WPX

[N4ZR]

The rule says, "The portable prefix must be an authorized prefix of the 
country/call area of operation."  It goes on, "KH6XXX operating from 
Ohio must use an authorized prefix for the U.S. 8th district (/W8, /AD8, 
etc.)".

Does this mean that my use of the callsign WR8AA from the third call 
area without a /3 suffix will be disqualified? There were certainly few 
to no US stations in WPX signing "/#"to denote their actual call area. 
In fact, I logged exactly one in over 1100 QSOs.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 6/1/2021 12:21 PM, Mike Ricketts wrote:
> " The WPX rules require one to have a callsign matching his DXCC country.
> Otherwise scoring issues - 1 point vs 3 points - arise.  Since AH2 is not
> in the USA, he had to send something. I don't think his "/**#"  needed to
> match his USA call area, however."
>
> The rules do indicate that those operating in another DXCC entity, must use
> a call from that call area. The specific example they use is KH6XXX
> operating in Ohio, would need to use something from the 8th call area. So
> the # portion does matter.
>
>
> 73,
> Mike ND9G
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 10:57 AM Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>
>> I really liked that “NO-DX” callsign.(NO8DX)  I laughed every time we
>> worked.  I didn’t know it was you, but big signal from you.
>>
>> Obviously not in the Florida Condo, Jim, hi!
>>
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>> VE9AA
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>> Mike, Coreen & Corey
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>> Keswick Ridge, NB
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>> From: jimk8mr at aol.com [mailto:jimk8mr at aol.com]
>> Sent: June 1, 2021 10:02 AM
>> To: ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca; cq-contest at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Funny/strange things heard in 'WPX
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>
>> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
>> Sent: Mon, May 31, 2021 4:55 pm
>> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Funny/strange things heard in 'WPX
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>> One station..a SV1something insisted his call was SV1something/QRP and
>> every
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>> time I went back to just the base callsign (let's call him SV1XXX but I
>> just
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>> made that up) he would not give me a serial #.....This happened 3 or 4
>> times
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>> until I said something like "NO, just SV1XXX" and then sent him the report
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>> again. Over and over he sent /QRP, /QRP, then SV1XXX/QRP.  He came back a
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>> few times every 5 minutes, until he just didn't.  Was I being a jerk?
>> Yeah,
>>
>> maybe, but I will never, ever perpetuate the sending of CALLSIGN/QRP in a
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>> contest.  "/QRP" is not your call and I won't help keep that trend going.
>>
>> During the week, sure. During a contest, no.  My loss? Maybe.
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>> I worked the same guy, and had just as much trouble getting his call out
>> from around the "/QRP"
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>> I worked one guy.I forget his exact call.but something like
>>
>> AH2M/WN6..wouldn't it have just been easier to send "AH2M"?  Doesn't
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>> AH2M/WN6 translate to simply a AH6 for a prefix? (Hardly seems worth it)
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>> The WPX rules require one to have a callsign matching his DXCC country.
>> Otherwise scoring issues - 1 point vs 3 points - arise.  Since AH2 is not
>> in the USA, he had to send something. I don't think his "/**#"  needed to
>> match his USA call area, however.
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>> Thanks for all the QSOs with me, hiding out in the Witness Protection
>> program as NO8DX.  (Does the "WP" in "WPX" stand for "Witness Protection"? )
>>
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>> 73  -  Jim   K8MR
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