[RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score

[Don Hill AA5AU]

It makes for a good argument either way.  I understand a station not
wanting to sign portable/call area.

However, if call area locations are going to be multipliers, then stations
should sign portable.  A way around this would be to allow stations to sign
without being portable.

Take the example of 7L4IOU who is actually in JA1 land.  The JARTS rules
take this into account.  Here's their rule on CALL AREA definition:

""CALL AREA" is the last letter of the prefix.
Examples: JA1, 7K1 are counted as JA1 and JR4, 7L4 are counted as JA4."

That solves the whole issue.  There is no need to actually sign portable. 

Just a thought or two...

73, Don AA5AU

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry " <w2up at mindspring.com>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score


> 
> 
> On 18 Aug 2003 Shelby Summerville wrote:
> 
> >  "Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au at bellsouth.net> wrote: "What really pushed me to
> > compete hard in the last two periods was a US station with a 5 callsign not
> > signing / portable the area he was in."
> > 
> >  Until contest sponsors make rules requiring, not suggesting, signing
> > "portable", there will be no change! Contest entrants are notorious for
> > "pushing the envelope", and, IMHO, it behooves the sponsors to "stay one
> > step ahead", not "several behind"?
> > 
> > C'Ya, Shelby
> > 
> 
> I thought it WAS required. I had some time available last weekend, 
> and was considering operating SARTG, but decided not to when I saw 
> that rule about signing portable. International contest sponsors need 
> to realize that there are no US geographic call areas any more.  All 
> the number means is where one was first licensed, if still holding 
> the original call.  If one has have a vanity call even that isn't 
> true. I haven't lived in "2 land" since 1979 and I'm not portable!
> Barry W2UP (in PA, not portable 3)--
> Barry Kutner, W2UP              Internet: w2up at mindspring.com
> Newtown, PA                     Frankford Radio Club
>          
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