Please tell me, then, why all those guys were sending a precidence of "U"
this past weekend?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Notarius W3WN" <wn3vaw@verizon.net>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 3:09 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Assistance & Entry Status
> OK, just for the heck of it, I'm going to run this one past all the
> arm-chair lawyers not busy working SS right now for an opinion. I'd like
> to
> know if I'm off track.
>
> Recently operated a mid-range domestic contest. Was supposed to have a
> few
> ops come over to run Multi-Single, but between one thing and another (flu,
> changing work schedules, and so forth) no one showed, so I ran the rig all
> by my lonesome.
>
> However... I did monitor the DX cluster and used it to help me find some
> multipliers I needed.
>
> This contest does not have an "assisted" category. The rules as they
> currently stand do not mention anything about the clusters or their use in
> any way, shape, or form.
>
> I feel that by rights, since I had assistance via the cluster from other
> ops, I should enter as a Multi-Single.
>
> A good friend (who is not on this reflector, AFAIK) who is not a "hard
> core"
> contester, at least not yet, tells me that I'm nuts, I should enter as
> Single Operator. When I mention the cluster, his attitude is "who cares?
> Besides, everyone does it." [I know, a bad attitude, but I'm working with
> him (he is yet young).]
>
> Regardless... am I wrong in feeling that the right thing to do in this
> situation is to enter as M/S?
>
> 73, ron w3wn
>
>
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