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Re: [CQ-Contest] Non-assisted & Assisted

To: <k5zd@charter.net>, "'Pete Smith N4ZR'" <n4zr@contesting.com>, <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Non-assisted & Assisted
From: "Rex Maner" <k7qq@netzero.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:16:30 -0000
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Randy

I don't use SOAssisted because 98 percent of the DX stuff posted that is workable with 20 watts from TX or the East Coast (wrong coast) isn't even readable from the Left Coast.

Rex  K7QQ



----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Thompson K5ZD" <k5zd@charter.net>
To: "'Pete Smith N4ZR'" <n4zr@contesting.com>; <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 1:11 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Non-assisted & Assisted


For these contests where there is no assisted category, instead of making
yet another category, why not just allow single ops to use assistance?!

Anyone licensed in the last 15 years has never experienced life without the
DX Cluster.  Perhaps it is time to accept this as it is - the new normal.

Randy, K5ZD


-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Pete Smith N4ZR
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 2:32 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Non-assisted & Assisted

What Rich says is correct.  I would just add that the ARRL 10 and 160
contests are severely anachronistic in this respect.  Nobody is
suggesting that assistance be allowed for "pure" single-ops, but surely
there should be a SOA category in these contests. That there is not dates
back to the earliest days of DX clusters.  To my knowledge, nobody has
advanced a reason for keeping the status quo.

I have been in correspondence with the CAC and various directors about
this, and one told me that action might be taken in the January ARRL
Board meeting, which has just taken place.  Why it requires a decision at
that level is beyond me, but that's what we have.  Now waiting for
detailed minutes to learn what, if anything, was done.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 1/25/2013 8:51 AM, Richard DiDonna NN3W wrote:
> Usually if it says nothing, the assumption is that you must classify
yourself as multi-single as the single operator rules have language about
the -operator- doing all of the activity.
>
> ARRL 160 and ARRL 10 do not have separate assisted categories -
necessitating that assisted ops enter as multi single entries.
>
> 73 Rich NN3W
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: Ktfrog007@aol.com
> Date: Fri, Jan 25, 2013 7:30 am
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Non-assisted & Assisted
> To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
>
> If a contest's rules say nothing about Assisted operation, does that
> mean it's allowed without restriction?
>
> Note that Single-Op has no uniform definition.  For example, in the
> ARRL RTTY Roundup, Single-Ops cannot be Assisted, while in the CQ WPX
> RTTY everyone can operate Assisted.
>
> 73,
> Kermit (Ken) AB1J
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