Contest rules are much like laws.
Laws are written to cure problems. Laws are written by well-meaning
bureaucrats and legislators who are mostly concerned about their own job
security, not the laws they write.
Unfortunately the laws cause more new problems, often without resolving
the problems they were written to cure.
Example using the new "stealth" rules in December QST on page 100: If
N6IG operates here at W6GO in the 160 meter contest, using the callsign
W6AX, and cannot come back for the second day, I am prohibited by rule
3.5 from operating using my FT-1000 as W6GO on the second day when Jim
isn't here. Of course, I could use position two with the IC-765, a
different "transmitter", using a different amplifier (the amplifier is
part of the "transmitter", isn't it?) but using the same antennas.
Sorry, but this doesn't make sense to me. It's just bureaucrats at
work, and rules for the sake of rules.
73, Jay
w6go@quiknet.com
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