-- Original Message -- My understanding has always been that . . . -- And Ron points out the underlying issue. Many of the terms used within contest rules are undefined, leading to multiple understan
Here's mine from last year's Stew Perry Top Band Challenge. http://tinyurl.com/y9lz3k More information on this system is at: http://www.RFSport.com Ev, W2EV __________________________________________
-- Original Message -- Unfortunately, not everyone has always-on, reliable, internet access, so this may not be practical. Heck, I don't always have it... -- Reply -- The RFSport.com system uses a si
Isn't this just an extension of the "If your wife brings you a sandwich, you better enter as assisted" argument? -- "Assistance" is undefined (or poorly defined at best). Therefore, it is anything th
Case-in-point... How much more "specific" can one be in communicating "VY1JA", "up 10kc" and "just" (who, where, when)? That seems to meet the definition just shared, yet you believe that it does not
Here are four foundational ambiguities: Station, Operator, Assistance, Spotting At one time or another, each term has been the focus of heated discussion and outright mis-adjudication. Once these fou
I write: EV, What part of "organized method" do you not understand ??? -- I take exception with limiting the definition of "assistance" to include only "organized methods". One can certainly "assist"
-- Original Message -- No, they don't. And I wouldn't want them to be. Each baseball league defines things a little bit different. Each golf league, each sailing organization, different auto race org
And if you are the target of a 'random assist', must you then DQ yourself? -- If you *act* upon receiving the random assistance (information), then you are no longer unassisted. Like golf, this aspec
-- Original Message -- NO, they don't have to be self consistent either! Nascar has some races with restrictor plates and some without. <snip> -- We are in agreement. Using your analogy, my point is
-- Original Message -- So where does one draw the line? If I have a bunch of guys help raise my towers and antennas am I assisted? Using a computer and or computer logging is assistance. SCP is assit
-- Original Message -- NO, why should they have to be consistent year to year? -- Because changing an interpretation or application of a rule without communicating it to the field of participants ahe
-- Reality is that I was SO HP assisted and made 40 mults more but 900 less qsos that running SOHP no packet and also 1 million points better that with packet. -- This is a "diamond" that the most ex
Not sure why there are so many posts about "assisted." It is in the rules. http://www.cqww.com/WW%20Rules%202006.pdf -- Bravo CQ (and Doug for pointing this out)! In fact, CQ's rules go on to say, "T
I was not watching my score but I did notice that I was 20 Qso's behind the next guy and had wished I had beat him! <snip> Maybe a web page is not the best way to get that info to the op. Maybe you g
Because I've been both a sponsor and user of realtime scoreboards since the very beginning (the first RT Scoreboards appeared in the fall of 2005), I'm now seeing aspects of them that can certainly b
OK, so here's my beef. If that's so cut and dried, why does one contest sponsor declare that a single op using spotting networks is assisted in one contest while, in another, calls the same thing a "
-- Original Message -- I guess we can't call "CQ contest especially VE8" or "CQ zone 29" for fear that someone will help us in some unforeseen way. It's complicated nowdays... Steve K8LX -- Steve, It
Since you are on the subject of "assisted" or not... What about these partial call data bases? Some of us copy the whole call and ask for a repeat (or two) if needed. Would using a partial call datab
I received this note direct (and removed the sender's ID as a result). It contains info that applies to the thread in reference to the use of "Super Check Partial" logging information during contests