[CQ-Contest] WRTC Calls

[Barry Jacobson]

Whatever format of calls chosen is fine as long as people know ahead of
time. For some reason, this very important email went to my spam folder,
even though I get almost all from this reflector. See screenshot below.

Best,

Barry WA2VIU

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Barry Jacobson
WA2VIU
bdj at alum.mit.edu
@bdj_phd

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023, 8:18 AM Fabio Schettino <fabio.e.schettino at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Fellows
>
> As a WRTC 2022 committee member  I want to thank you for helping this
> competition to be one of the largest 2023 events in the world.
>
> About callsigns :
>
> We have negotiated two years, to clarify and insist, that this will be an
> unique opportunity for Italy to allow a never assigned block of
> callsign, for a unique event. We had several meeting even weekly with
> Ministry rappresentative , to engage a procedure that has been
> never done, even the ITU assigned Call block allows it.
>
> Otherwise there are rules that can't be overcome, the WRTC 2022 was
> developed in the I4 Area, one of the callsign divisions and obviously we
> can't
> request other than a callsign that starts with I4 Prefix. Two prefix
> numbers has not be allowed in the recent four decades, and it's was
> perfect, for  WPX
> hunter, and easy to be recognized as WRTC 2022 competitors.
>
> So no funny I8 block, assigned to another Italian Division or some other
> easy to hear callsign, simply an hard work to allow worldwide hams to have
> more fun during the contest.
>
> Callsign has been publicly announced Friday Morning, most bulletin has
> spread out the information at light speed, and RBN networks has been
> updated
> a week early. WRTC 2022 Log checking has been leaded from N6TR, Tree, that
> is in charge also at ARRL to check IARU Contest Log, so everyone was
> update at the right time.
>
> So LOG WHAT YOU HEAR ...
>
> Best 73 de Fabio I4UFH
>
> WRTC2022 Vice Director
>
>
>
> Il giorno mar 11 lug 2023 alle ore 18:09 ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <
> cq-contest at contesting.com> ha scritto:
>
> >  Non-standard two-digit I##x prefix calls starting with I4 were a poor
> > choice. Lots of IARU participants are casual contesters and don't follow
> > online discussions and info all the time. They have lives otherwise.
> > Much better call blocks would have been I8#. Skipping I84 and I86. Let's
> > hope the UK guys pay attention.
> >
> > 73,Ken, AB1J
> >     On Tuesday, July 11, 2023 at 12:05:40 PM UTC, jpescatore--- via
> > CQ-Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:
> >
> >  The format of the competitor calls was announced in advance, along with
> > the call of the spotting station that would put out SSB spots. That
> didn't
> > prevent oodles of busted spots since none of those A4#! format calls was
> in
> > history files or Super Check Partial files - you weren't alone!
> > The ARRL log checking stats should be fun to see...
> > 73 John K3TN
> > Barry WA2VIU said:
> > > ... Also, maybe I
> > missed it but I was unprepared for double number calls, and copied I43C
> as
> > IV3C. Was there a notice in advance of what format the contest team calls
> > would be? Would be good to know for next time. I was operating unassisted
> > and therefore did not look up any of the real-time spotting sites that
> > would have told me this info during contest.
> >
> >
> >
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