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

To: Radio K0HB <kzerohb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Define Assistance in 25 words or less
From: Jeff Blaine <KeepWalking188@ac0c.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 13:36:27 -0500
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I don't know about call history and SCP.  Those provide a list, not a single call.  And I believe that those are universally accepted.

The issue seems to be for guys who want to use the cluster in contests that prohibit the use.  So the right answer there is to get a new category introduced (which is what started the NAQP discussion), or to find another contest to play in.  I personally think adding an assisted mode category to NAQP would be a good thing because it would help push up participation.

73/jeff/ac0c
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
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On 13-Aug-18 9:53 AM, Radio K0HB wrote:
Excellent!  No cluster, no RBN, no Super-check partial, and no prefill such as call history.  Also no auto filled exchange element, such as zone.

Let’s put Radiomen back in radiosport.

73, de Hans, K0HB


On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 15:37 Jeff Blaine <KeepWalking188@ac0c.com <mailto:KeepWalking188@ac0c.com>> wrote:

    Simple. Assisted is using any source of a callsign other than from
    your
    head (CW/SSB) - or from your single signal decoder (CW/RTTY) on the
    operating QRG of the moment.  28 words (a few added to enhance
    clarity)

    73/jeff/ac0c
    alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
    www.ac0c.com <http://www.ac0c.com>

    On 12-Aug-18 1:47 PM, ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest wrote:
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    > Re: an Assisted NAQP category:
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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Hank Greeb <n8xx@arrl.org <mailto:n8xx@arrl.org>>
    > To: cq-contest <cq-contest@contesting.com
    <mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com>>
    > Sent: Sun, Aug 12, 2018 11:58 am
    > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest Digest, Vol 188, Issue 12
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    > 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
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    > The contest community should hire some underemployed lawyers to
    come up with a definition of Assistance.
    >
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    > 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.
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    > Air conditioning is nice, too, in the summer.
    >
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    > 73 and may the band rise to meet you,
    > Ken, AB1J
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