[RTTY] ARRL RR drops DX SO plaques this year

[Earl]

I called Dan Henderson today and found out that he is on vacation this week. A
very nice young lady took my questions (said that she would add them to the RU
stack) about the plaques and the missing QSO's. She did mention that there were
a flood of calls today about the plaques. She said that Dan would be back in
touch with me as soon as he returned. I will relay his answers when I hear from
him. 

Earl N5ZM..
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"Hill, Don" wrote:
> 
> I sent an E-mail to Dan Henderson last night.  I was sure that
> I sponsored the Low Power plaque for the Central Division but it
> was not listed in the QST article.
> 
> Perhaps some plaque listings were omitted by mistake.  It wouldn't
> be the first time something was amiss.  I will relate Dan's
> answers when I receive them.
> 
> The bottom line is that, yes, we want to keep as many plaques
> as possible to keep the interest up.
> 
> 73, Don AA5AU
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry [mailto:w2up@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 5:41 AM
> To: rtty@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] ARRL RR drops DX SO plaques this year
> 
> I noticed there was no sponsor listed for the PSK plaque. Last
> year, the editors of QST sponsored it.
> Barry
> 
> On 29 Jul 01, Don Hill AA5AU wrote:
> 
> > I don't know anything about the plaques.  If there are sponsors,
> > there should be plaques.  We need to ask Dan directly about this.
> >
> > As far as the lower score, I was deducted 20 QSO's from my reported
> > total.  ARRL used some sort of log checking tool this year so they
> > must have found some things they didn't like.  Losing 20 out of 1600
> > ain't too bad though.  It was worse in CQWW & WPX RTTY.
> >
> > 73, Don AA5AU
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Earl" <n5zm@arrl.net>
> > Cc: <rtty@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 8:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: [RTTY] ARRL RR drops DX SO plaques this year
> >
> >
> > > Hi John and all, did they (ARRL) also drop the W/VE Multi-op HP and LP
> plaques
> > > or were they just not sponsored and therefore not listed in the QST
> article
> > > (available on the ARRL Members only page). Also the N5ZM listed results
> were 19
> > > QSO's short (with a lower score) of what I turned in. Anyone else notice
> this
> > > with their listed score in the article. Never has happened to me before.
> > > Inquiring minds would like to know.
> > >
> > > 73, Earl N5ZM..
> > >
> > > WA9ALS - John wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I noticed this in the rules for 2001, and I see plaques only awarded
> to DX
> > > > for multi-op LP and HP.  Last year they also gave them to single-op LP
> and
> > > > HP DX.  Anyone know why they decided to drop the single-op DX plaques?
> They
> > > > mentioned that unsponsored plaques can be purchased, so it surely
> wasn't a
> > > > financial decision.  Any comments?  I hate to see anything that would
> > > > discourage DX from participating in this contest!  73
> > > >
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