[RTTY] ARRL and band/mode awards

[Jim Preston]

Peter,

Actually, Phone is mentioned in the rules, page 1, under Number 5. 
Granted, it's an off-hand mention, but it is there.

73,

Jim N6VH


On 8/1/2013 9:23 AM, Peter Laws wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Kai <k.siwiak at ieee.org> wrote:
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>> modulation format for DXCC. They already do that for WAS (except WAS-TPA),
>> which does allow a googolplex matrix of digital modes and bands: every
>> chirp, warble and squeak seems to be covered! Interestingly, there is no
>> differentiation in either WAS or DXCC for individual phone modes. Go figure!
>
> I think that the matrix of awards cheapens the whole thing.  Much like
> "winning" CQ WW because you had the highest score of all the Single
> Op, Single Band stations in your state running only a tribander or
> wires.
>
> About 'phone.  Because the not-so-new-anymore-but-still-crappy ARRL
> site is the way it is, you'd never know that, yes, in fact, they do
> award by 'phone sub-mode.
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> I googled "ARRL WAS Rules" which got me to the main WAS page.  I
> clicked the link for "complete" rules and got a PDF.  No mention of
> 'phone there.  I then clicked on "Forms" over on the left under "WAS"
> and got to something marked "WAS Paper Application".
>
> Wayyyyy down at the bottom of that section is a link marked "Go Now".
> If you are still healthy enough to have lived long enough to get here,
> you are rewarded with a PDF of the actual form (PDF for forms, good;
> PDF of what should be a webpage, i.e. the rules above, bad).
>
> On that form, about half-way down, you can, if applying for a Phone
> award, designate AM, FM, LSB, USB, or Other.
>
> I assume this is legal even if it's not actually in the rules.  ::-D
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