I believe it's the same as a Maritime Mobile, you log the region.
73 Bill K3SV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Kovatch" <w8car@buckeye-express.com>
To: "Oliver Dröse" <droese@necg.de>; <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How to log an air mobile station in
ARRL-10contest?
W1PH/am is listed in the 2008 results as being in R2 So it seems the rules
somewhere dropped the 'aeronatical mobile' part of the maritime mobile
section-seems like a typo.
I think logging by region is what you do.
Dan W8CAR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oliver Dröse" <droese@necg.de>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How to log an air mobile station in
ARRL-10contest?
> Thanks Ron and Ken for your answers sofar.
>
>> The short answer is that contacts with aeronautical mobile contact
>> probably do not count for contest credit in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest.
>
> Well, as it has been a valid contest contact/exchange it has to count - my
> opinion at least. ;-)) Ofcourse it's arguable if it is a mult or not (am
> vs. mm
> in the rules) but has to be valid for the 2 points SSB-QSO credit at
> least.
>
> My question is rather what to put into the log: Serial number or IARU
> region
> number? As I received both I'm flexible on that. ;-)) To my sorrow no
> answer
> from ARRL sofar. :-((
>
> Anybody else who worked W4KZ/am?
>
> Got really excited when hearing W4KZ calling CQ on sideband. ;-)) As it
> turned
> out he was /am flying from Europe to North America and being about 100
> miles
> east of northeastern Canada mainland (if I understood that correctly)
> reporting
> being in region 2. He was obviously not sure himself what to sent so to be
> on
> the save side he sent a serial number as well as the region. ;-)) He was
> calling
> CQ contest himself when I grabbed him and told me I was the loudest signal
> on
> the band while all other Europeans he heard were rather weak. Could copy
> him at
> S7 signal levels for about 10 minutes before he slowly faded out. Put him
> on the
> cluster 3 times but as no other Europeans called him I suppose I had some
> special propagation channel to him ... At the same time the band was open
> to GM
> from DL via Sporadic E. When his signal was gone GM signals were gone,
> too. So
> probably something like "2,5 hop sporadic E" ... ;-))
>
> But what a pity that ionosphere did not bounce signals back to W/VE
> mainland ...
> already so close when judging this contact. ;-))
>
> 73, Olli - DH8BQA
>
>
>
>
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