Many contests have Single Op ASSISTED. If they do not have that class then
you will fall into the Multi category.
On 11/4/07 9:46 PM, "Leigh S. Jones, KR6X" <kr6x@kr6x.com> wrote:
> 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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