Fwd: Re: [RTTY] ANARTS not requiring the / ?

[Phil Florig]

Hi,

I have been mostly chasing DX and have been "up in the air" about using
the /4.  I lets the person know that I am in 4 land but that is about it.
Most of the time for DX it doesn't matter to the DX station.  Problem is
when the DX calls for the "4's" am I ok to jump in the pile.  HI....
This has caused some problems as one DX station would not work me because
I jumped in with the /4 and he said I was a 9 and didn't get in the log.
When he got to the 9's he wouldn't respond to me. (Selective hearing???  HI.)

I know that contesting is a little different and guess will have to look
at the particular contest to see if it makes a difference like Bill and Bob 
indicated.

Side note here, is that sometimes there is a problem with the qsling part as
I get "Not in log" because I didn't put /4 on the call when submitting. The
log search did not pick up the call right.     Might keep this in mind when
qsling...


73    Phil


>On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 20:48:44 -0400, "Bob Wanderer" <aa0cy at quadnet.net>
>wrote:
>
> >While there appears to be no written, specific requirement
> >regarding signing portable, it seems to me that signing
> >portable would be beneficial since the US call areas are
> >multipliers.
> >73, Bob AA0CY/3
>
>_________________________________________________________
>
>I suspect that was probably what was intended by the contest sponsors.
>I'm surprised they didn't spell it out like other contests.
>
>Just looking for a loophole.  :-)
>
>73, Bill W7TI
>
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