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Logged W1AW/4 @ 0900 UTC 7/15/07 working a contest. Have never heard them
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jdp wrote: Logged W1AW/4 @ 0900 UTC 7/15/07 working a contest. Have never heard them sign as portable. They've been lending their call to some contest operations for at least a few years now. I'm not familiar with the rule(s) that allow that. dxAce Michigan USA |
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:41:23 -0400, dxAce wrote:
jdp wrote: Logged W1AW/4 @ 0900 UTC 7/15/07 working a contest. Have never heard them sign as portable. They've been lending their call to some contest operations for at least a few years now. I'm not familiar with the rule(s) that allow that. W1AW is generally operated portable in the IARU Contest (which was held this past weekend) every year. It was here in Tennessee last year. (I don't know where they were this year but I suspect the Atlanta area) In the IARU Contest, each country's national amateur radio society's headquarters station - in the USA's case, W1AW - counts as a special score multiplier. An attempt is made to activate that station on all HF amateur bands, both Morse Code and voice, simultaneously. The normal W1AW station in Connecticut doesn't have that capability. (in fact, I don't know of *any* single amateur station that has that capability) Multiple sites are used. These days, FCC regulations allow an amateur station to be operated from any point under FCC jurisdiction without notice, as long as the station licensee consents. It's not even necessary to identify as portable anymore. (W1AW *could* operate from Puerto Rico and simply identify as "W1AW", though a lot of people would be wondering why they were saying they were in ITU Zone 11!) |
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