If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck........
Tom W7WHY
Jeff & all,
can somebody help me, please? Seems I just don't get it ...
How do you know how they operated? Have you been there? Did you ask
them? How do you know if their 3830 report has not been wrong (i.e.
they accidentally chose M/2 as reporting category instead of M/M
because they did so for the last 8 years or so)? What does a packet
spot analysis tell you? Yes, maybe they were only running on 2 bands
in parallel. Do you know if they didn't do mult chasing on the other
bands at the same time? How do you know if they did not have any
technical problems and/or transmitted on 3 or more bands at the same
time (interlock problems during mult chasing, etc.)? Wouldn't you
expect them to change to M/M then (if they ever started as M/2 before)
to still comply with the rules and not risk a DQ? Wouldn't that be a
perfect example of playing integer? Questions upon questions ...
Besides the M/M rules state: "The six contest bands *may* be activated
simultanously." Re-read it. It does not say "must be activated". If
you use 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 stations is certainly up to you, available
equipment, available OPs, a.s.o.
Certainly a few things to think about before starting bad calls at
guys who seem to have played perfectly by the rules. And please don't
compare that to UT5UGR last year. He did not play by the rules. That's
why he got DQ'd, easy as that. Not the case here!
Don't get me wrong. I do not argue because I might be biased as a
German (I do not even know most of the OPs at CR3L) but because of
missing fairness in the current discussion. You expect guys to play by
the rules. They did (as far as we know). So what's wrong here? Why are
you asking them for self-defence? All perfectly legal ...
73, Olli - DH8BQA
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