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[CQ-Contest] Define Assistance in 25 words or less

To: n8xx@arrl.org, cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Define Assistance in 25 words or less
From: ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 14:47:50 -0400
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Re: an Assisted NAQP category:



-----Original Message-----
From: Hank Greeb <n8xx@arrl.org>
To: cq-contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Sun, Aug 12, 2018 11:58 am
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest Digest, Vol 188, Issue 12


There's already an assisted  category.  Anyone who uses prefills from past 
NAQP's have been assisted by this feature of most logging software.What more do 
we need?I predict that in the near future we'll have a zero Op, one 
Transmitter, and even zero op, multi transmitter categories, with 
computers/robots doing all he copying, sending, receiving.Then we need not 
worry about assisted or non assisted. It will ALL be assisted while we sit back 
and drinque brown 807's and watch the computers battle it out. 
72/73 de n8xx 




The contest community should hire some underemployed lawyers to come up with a 
definition of Assistance.  


Some say it's spotting information (clusters, RBN, skimmers).  Others, like 
N8XX, say it's exchange information.  Still others say propagation info, 
panadapters, SDRs, code readers, computers, the Internet, loggers, SCP, country 
files, CW keyers, keyboard CW, voice keyers, SO2R, remote operation, a comfy 
chair, a tolerant spouse, clear skies, fair winds and following seas, and so on.


I'd add in transceivers and SSB.  Try a phone contest sometime on AM with 
separate TX and RX. Log and dupe with paper and pencil (and eraser).  Those 
were manly contests.


Air conditioning is nice, too, in the summer.


73 and may the band rise to meet you,
Ken, AB1J





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