[VHFcontesting] Why a rule discriminating against portable stations?

[Jeff DePolo]

> operated a portable station (100% separate hardware) as KR1ST/P from a
> different location. It turns out that after I submitted my home KR1ST log,
> it gets overwritten by the KR1ST/P entry I submitted later. I assume that
is
> because of the rule I quoted above.

Perhaps unrelated, but I don't know if the ARRL upload process recognizes
"/P" for portable does it?  Obviously it understands "/R" for Rover.
 
> I would think that in the spirit of Amateur Radio we should be as
permissive
> as possible when it comes to operating practices in order to generate
> maximum activity.

I agree in general, but I don't know how to adopt it fairly without creating
yet-another category.  I have mountaintop FM remote bases in four different
grids that can't be used in VHF contests unless I operated one, and only
one, during a contest.  I don't think I can even use multiple remotes to
give out points when I'm NOT turning in a log because it would cause
problems for those who I worked since I wasn't signing /R yet I appeared in
their log in multiple grids.  Unless there's a way around it in the rules
that I'm not aware of?  Well, maybe there's one way around it - use a
different callsign like a club call for one location and your own call for
the other.  There's nothing forbidding a club from having multiple club
station licenses/callsigns, although you're limited to only one vanity call.

Haven't seen anyone post any scores yet; I'm guilty too as a procrastinator
but will get to it this weekend.

					--- Jeff WN3A



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