[RTTY] W0ETC SCC RTTY Championship

[Tom Homewood]

Multipliers are different four-digit numbers, meaning the four digits of the
year of correspondent's first official amateur radio license.


This is from para. 6 Multipliers. This seems to contradict your
interpretation. The operative word is "first".

I went with first. But you could be right.

73, Tom, W1TO

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Flanders" <jeflanders at comcast.net>
To: "Larry L Lindblom" <llindblom at juno.com>; <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] W0ETC SCC RTTY Championship


> At 15:47 8/29/04, Larry L Lindblom wrote:
> >                     SCC RTTY Championship
> >
> >Call: W0ETC...
> >A few hours of playing arond between other weekend activities.  I like
> >the
> >exchange in this contest because it lets me know who the Newbies and old
> >timers
> >in ham radio really are.
>
> But so many of us have changed callsigns in recent years you can't always
> go by the exchange year. The callsign I am using was issued in '96 with
the
> vanity upgrades, so I properly reported 1996, although my original
callsign
> was issued in 1951.
>
> That said, I noticed that some of the guys with recent-style calls were
> obviously reporting their original license issue year, not the current
> callsign issue year as (apparently) required by the rules at:
> http://lea.hamradio.si/~scc/rtty/htmlrules.htm
>
> You were good copy here in SC. Thanks for the Qs on 40 and 20.
>
> Jerry W4UK (1996) ex W4UKU (1951)
>