[RTTY] Grid Squares

[Peter Laws]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 09:06, Bill, W6WRT <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
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> On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:07:11 -0800, Dick Flanagan <dick at k7vc.com> wrote:
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>>Why?  Grid squares can straddle state, section and county borders.
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>>What am I missing?
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> REPLY:
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> Some ops collect grid squares.

Hello?  Makrothen?  Has everyone forgotten that one?  The sponsors of
that contest have wisely dropped the meaningless contest RST and use
only the 4-char grid loc as the exchange.  They've made that highly
relevant by basing scoring on distance which means they have to have
the grid loc (though it could be lat/lon, I suppose).

Neither BARTG Sprint uses the meaningless contest RST either (HF RTTY does).




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