Mobile rule (was Re: [PaQSO] AA8QQ plans)

[Jay Budzowski]

...and if I said to you that I truly worked N3SH yesterday from Armstrong
county, would you take that to mean I did in fact operate from ARM, or that
I was capable of operating from ARM?
    The fact that two people can come up with two different interpretations
of the mobile rule means that the rule in question is in fact ambiguous and
needs to be clarified. I think that was AA8QQ's original comment in the
first place ..Jay N3DQU

Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 15:39:25 -0400
From: "Ron Notarius" <wn3vaw at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [PaQSO] AA8QQ plans
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Not to split hairs too finally but I think the "truly mobile" phrase was
intended to refer to a "real" mobile, as in vehicle-mounted radios, as
opposed to someone who just sets up somewhere and decides his card table is
"mobile" since it can be physically moved around the site!

73, ron wn3vaw
Waiting on my ride to N3SH / GRE

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Budzowski" <JBUDZOWSKI at peoplepc.com>
To: <paqso at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [PaQSO] AA8QQ plans


>    Maybe AA8QQ is referring to the official PAQ rules, which in fact
states
> that "...Mobile stations must be truly mobile.". True, there are many
> contests out there that allow the "capable of moving" concept, but reading
> the rules as they are promulgated by the sponsor, it would seem unlikely
> that a mobile station could be a county line station, unless the road
> happened to run along the county line...Jay N3DQU
>
> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:32:50 EDT
> From: K3YD at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [PaQSO] AA8QQ plans
> To: j.e.mauch at sbcglobal.net, paqso at mailman.qth.net
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> In a message dated 10/08/2004 10:52:27 Eastern Daylight Time,
> j.e.mauch at sbcglobal.net writes:
>
> > If I do stop on a county line, I will be signing /R since I won't be
truly
> >  mobile, but sitting in one spot, and I won't be a fixed station either.
.
> . .
> > This is another of those rules that needs fixed/redefined
> >in the off season.
>
> My understanding is that A MOBILE station is CAPABLE of moving with the
> antenna which is being used, i.e. a whip--it doesn't have to be in motion
> while the
> QSOs take place.
>
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