[RTTY] AA5AU SARTG Score

[llindblom at juno.com]

Based on my experience from living in deferent localities both in and outside of the USA, "asked" in the USA is treated as a suggestion.  In other areas "asked" is considered an imperative or shall do.  It is strictly a matter of perspective. 

73 W0ETC still in 0 Land and going nowhere ;-)

--- "Barry " <w2up at mindspring.com> wrote:

Let me get this straight. You mean signing "portable" is just a 
suggestion, not a requirement? What's the point of a contest rule if 
it's optional?
How about:
If running high power, it is asked that you not enter the low power 
category. :.)
73,
Barry
P.S. Yes, I've been guilty of signing /3 in a pileup if I didn't get 
through with the 2's.

On 19 Aug 2003 at 14:11, llindblom at juno.com wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
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Barry Kutner, W2UP              Internet: w2up at mindspring.com
Newtown, PA                     Frankford Radio Club
        

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