[RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score

[Ken Brookner]

i have a 5-land call and live in 7-land.  i don't sign portable under
any circumstances anymore.  i used to, but caught flack from dx about
doing so in contests.  because of the various master call databases i
had to become consistent, otherwise i would hear "/7??," or "7 or not??"
all the time from both phone and digital contests (and even dx during
non-contest contacts) and this just slows everyone down.

my preference for continental US ops is to disallow all portable signing
during contests.  for working by numbers, i'm a '5' and i don't play
games trying to double dip in pile-ups by also trying the 'portable 7'
ploy.  where contests absolutely require portable signing, i generally
don't play anymore.

i think that would make it simpler for everyone to *not* use portable
signage for US continental ops.  my .02.

kenb, ky5g



> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of llindblom at juno.com
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 7:11 AM
> To: k5ww at wcsonline.net
> Cc: rtty at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score
> 
> 
> 
> As always it seems many North Americans only understand 
> imperatives like "must" or "shall."  
> 
> My all time favorites are the stations who sometimes sign 
> portable and sometimes don't.  This is typically done in a 
> pile up on rare DX working by call areas;-)
> 
> 73 Larry L
> W0ETC
> 
> --- "Gert E. Janssens" <k5ww at wcsonline.net> wrote:
> 
> The rules for SARTG say:
> 
> "NOTE: Stations operating from call areas other than their 
> call ID, are asked to use '/x' for their actual call area, 
> i.e. K5DJ/1."
> 
> The word "asked" often gets "misinterpreted".
> 
> 73,
> 
> Gert - K5WW
> 
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Barry 
>   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
>