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Re: [CQ-Contest] "500-meter circle" rule question

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] "500-meter circle" rule question
From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: k9yc@arrl.net
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:36:13 -0800
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On 2/22/2022 12:20 PM, John Owens wrote:
Unless a contest specifically allows it, I would assume that I can’t move over 
a line that would change my exchange. So for most contests, I would need to stay 
within California or within my ARRL section (SCV).

Hi John,

I would not assume that without reading the contest Rules. Remember that FCC Rules have not required signing /M or /P or /n (where n is the call area) for almost 50 years. There are lots of very active contesters who live outside area designated by their call, and who never sign /n.

But for contesting, we SHOULD sign /M if our operation is likely to change our exchange during the course of the contest. I never log /n for FCC licensed hams. And although I do work some contests QRP, I never work stations signing /QRP, simply because their doing so is both un-necessary and a time-waster (especially so if their signal is very hard to copy anyway).

73, Jim K9YC
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