--- "Joe Subich, W4TV" <w4tv@subich.com> wrote:
>
>
> > There are no technology differences between the single op
> > unassisted and single op assisted categories with one
> > exception: the delivery of callsigns and frequencies from an
> > outside source as used in the assisted category. Whether
> > that happens via packet radio/net connection or via a piece
> > of computer software connected to a receiver is irrelevant.
>
> You're correct there is no technological difference between
> assisted and unassisted - the difference it that another PERSON
> is providing the information in the assisted class.
>
> Where the information comes from hardware/software in my own
> shack, it is no different than the use of a panadapter and/or
> one/five/seven channel decoder in WriteLog.
Wrong again, Joe. The CQWW rules, in fact, have already addressed this.
>From the rules:
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1. Single Operator High: Those stations at which one person performs all of
the operating, logging, and spotting functions.
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Those stations at which one PERSON performs ... SPOTTING functions.
A piece of computer software decoding CW signals is not a person performing a
spotting function. If the callsign is decoded by a method other than the human
ear, that is not a person spotting a callsign, it's a machine. A computer. A
computer is not a person. The rule says PERSON. Not person operating a
computer that spots the callsigns for you.
73
Scott W4PA
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