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Re: [CQ-Contest] CWT Virus has spread to ARRL 10M - WPX next?

To: dimitri cosson <dimitri.cosson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CWT Virus has spread to ARRL 10M - WPX next?
From: Saulius Zalnerauskas <ly5w.sam@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:21:05 +0200
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BRAVO DIMITRI,

Strange people, really found problem where there is no problem at all :)
MX and HNY (I think you know what MX is not UK Prefix and HNY is not Iraq?)
73, Sam LY5W
ENN AE (599 15) or ENN K (599 KW in ARRL)


On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 6:11 PM dimitri cosson <dimitri.cosson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Excuse my ignorance but I don't understand why this poses a problem to you
> other than the fact that you don't like cut numbers.
> You know what type of repors the  contest you're taking part requires so
> this does not cause any comprehension problems (besides I am not sure that
> you transmit 599 instead of 5NN...).
> So is this your ham spirit to want to impose your way of operating on
> those who do not practice the same way as you?
>
> Is there nothing more important in your life ?
>
> 73, Dimitri F4DSK
>
>
>
> Le 17 déc. 2024 à 22:59, à 22:59, Frank Maynard NF8M <nf8m@fmaynard.com>
> a écrit:
> >In reply to John K3TN's comment
> >
> >> A few months ago, after remotely opping OZ5W as part of a MM in the
> >SAC CW and running into cut numbers in variable serial numbers, I
> >reached out to the ARRL, WPX and CA QP test to recommend prohibiting
> >cut numbers in non ST exchange fields.
> >Saw them quite a bit in the 10M ARRL this past weekend.
> >
> >Jim K8MR wrote:
> >
> >
> >>  I don't think cut numbers could be outlawed - can you imagine how
> >> that would be enforced?
> >
> >Unless there are contest-committee-appointed monitors listening to each
> >QSO, it would have to be enforced at the grass-roots level. If we would
> >all ask for a repeat from any station sending a cut number, and again
> >until they send the full number, the practice might end rather quickly.
> >I encountered a few cut number exchanges which threw me for an instant,
> >and thought about asking for a repeat.
> >
> >--
> >73,
> >Frank Maynard, NF8M
> >nf8m@arrl.net
> >
> >
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