Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 19:45:09 -0000
I've changed my mind due to more research and my response to another posting. If you asked for assistance it denotes a plan to get assistance and is therefore grounds to be placed in the "Assisted" c
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 18:52:54 -0000
Ev, I'd be happy to agree with you IF this practice was specifically forbidden in the contest rules. As they stand now, there is nothing that I can see in the rules that comes close to prohibiting a
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 19:02:55 -0000
I'll grant you that one contact or mult can make a difference but, as I stated and with reference to the rule quoted it the initial posting, I believe you would have to be, provably, the only one th
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 22:39:33 -0000
Gah!! Please reverse my answer again as I just reread the question. My answer is NO for the below stated reasons. In other words.... You are Assisted. 73 -- Paul VO1HE _______________________________
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 23:37:00 -0000
Sorry, Mike, but I gotta disagree on this one. There is NO mention of anything in any rule that I have looked at that expressly forbids selective calling. As I said in another posting, if you want t
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 00:06:25 -0000
Interesting. Here's another one. Rule 2.1 of the ARRL General Rules for Contests Below 30MHz states: Single Operator: One person performs all the transmitting, receiving, and logging functions as we
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:44:58 -0000
The rule is also non-specific as to when this equipment and antenna adjustment can take place so, in theory, unless you have absolutely no friends to help you with your station set up and you live a
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 20:48:13 -0000
I would say that it is entirely up to the sponsor to either reject or accept the entry. They made the rules and they have to set the examples. However, if a top 10 entry is being accepted late while
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:37:02 -0000
With today's technology, logs could/can be submitted in real-time or, with a keystroke or 2, immediately after the contest. Anyone still using paper logs (Yikes!!) could conceiveably have the current
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:00:42 -0000
I have to agree with Hans. I will stipulate to points 2-5 but I cannot agree that calling a specific multiplier or location is wrong. I am, under current rules, well within my rights to work only tho
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:11:49 -0000
Aye, there's the rub.... IF the rules prohibit it! They do not. Maybe I missed something in reading the rules of the various contest but where *exactly* does it say I have to ignore information pick
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:14:47 -0000
I ask because I am not a programmer... Would it be all that difficult for the contest logging programmers to program a button into their logging software that automatically sends the log to the appr
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:19:42 -0000
Yep. That's why it's the only thing mentioned in the rules when dealing with being assisted. 73 -- Paul VO1HE _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@conte
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:37:04 -0000
Whew! I glad I'm not bad. Especially this close to Christmas. Considering that final factor, if the contest adjudicators make arbitrary decisions about the rules of their own contests on a random ba
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:08:17 -0000
Very true, Mark but, considering that, even now, not everyone uses computer logging, what difference does it make that not everyone has Internet access. I am not suggesting that this would eliminate
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:31:44 -0000
Yep, seems to prove my point. If the rules are nothing more than one's own interpretation of them, and this interpretation has been reinforced by them having been enforced (or not) in a haphazard ma
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:02:12 -0000
I agree that a mistake should be corrected at the time is was made. If your running a 200/hr clip, you'd better know how to type fast but if you make a mistake, take a few seconds to correct it and
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:07:55 -0000
<SNIP> stations call for 10s of minutes without giving a callsign, even in contests, and many more others giving a callsign and simply saying/sending "UP". Up is a pretty broad swath. My radio doesn'
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:09:45 -0000
Your wife is on your property so, according to the vague definition of assistance, you are not assisted you are a multi-op. Simple rule of thumb.... On your property = multi-op / Off your property =
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:01:14 -0000
This may have been a valid reason before the greatly expanded cluster network but now, with world wide availability and connectivity,I too have wondered why anyone would want to help another competi