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Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Rules - was Check numbers again

To: "Robert Naumann" <w5ov@w5ov.com>, cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Rules - was Check numbers again
From: "K0HB " <k-zero-hb@earthlink.net>
Reply-to: k-zero-hb@earthlink.net
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:51:11 -0000
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>
> In the SS exchange it is designed to represent the # of words in a radio
> gram message header - it is not intended to pass along the precise year a
> person was first licensed for some other purpose. The league picking the
> last two of your year of licensing is just a convenient number to fill
that
> spot.  
>

In line with that radiogram header paradigm, since SS is really a
--series-- of messages sent, perhaps it would be more realistic if each
message had a potentially different check (just like a 'real' radiogram). 
Then SS would become more a test of radio skills, not computer skills.

I vote "AYE".

73, de Hans, K0HB
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 ><{{{{*>    http://www.home.earthlink.net/~k0hb  

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