[VHFcontesting] Reminder: ARRL Rule STTN.6

[Paul Bourque]

The key word here is SHOULD.

"All equipment SHOULD be capable of communications at a range of at least 5
km." What we're essentially trying to prevent is having stations work each
other from across the parking lot using 500 mw exciters or radios connected
to dummy loads, and essentially fabricating contacts. If you happen to work
a close by station with radios that are capable of longer range
communications, have at it.

As was mentioned, we cannot determine actual distances from 4 digit grid
squares. Hence the word SHOULD. If you happen to make contact with a
neighboring station down the street who's also in the contest, or even make
a random contact with a station down the street, those would be valid.

73,
-Paul Bourque
ARRL Contest Program Manager.

On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 11:48 AM Scott Armstrong <aa5am.scott at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 9, 2024, 10:46 AM Scott Armstrong <aa5am.scott at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > How does a log get scrutinized when the exchange is a 4 digit grid
> square?
> > Two stations in the same grid could be any where from 0km to greater than
> > 200km distance apart.
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 9, 2024, 6:40 AM Ev Tupis via VHFcontesting <
> > vhfcontesting at contesting.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In case any non-fixed station operators missed it...
> >>
> >> According to the document found >>HERE<<, "STTN.6. All equipment should
> >> be capable of communications at a range of at least 5 km. Contacts made
> >> between non-fixed stations, for example portable and/or rover stations,
> >> should be made over a distance of at least 5 km."
> >> I added ialics simply for emphasys.
> >> This is a departure from the historic 1 km distance.
> >> I assume this will mean additional log scrutiny in grids where rovers
> use
> >> the same hilltops and upon arrival will log eachother before contacting
> DX.
> >>
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