Ed,
I am not a lawyer... when I need one, I pick up the phone and speak to K3AIR.
So I don't try to interpret the rules as some clearly do, looking for
exceptions.
To my reading, there is no ambiguity. In short, no technological aides
(including but not limited to RBN) for a SO category participant.
If you wish to use such aides, and I'm not saying you shouldn't (just don't try
and force me to if I don't want to), then you are or should be entering as an
SO Assisted category participant.
Now, if you feel that the rule as written still isn't clear enough to define
this concept... how would you write it to do so?
Because obviously, we ALL want the rules to be clear, concise, and unambiguous.
(Don't we?) And we don't want someone to find a minor techniciality that they
would claim permits them to skirt the intent of this rule, and thus use RBN or
other technologies in violation of the spirit of the rule. (Don't we?)
73, ron w3wn
On 07/25/13, Edward Sawyer wrote:
"I also don't agree that parsing the rule to find a smidgen of a loophole is
appropriate. This is not a court of law, after all. And I strongly suspect
that if someone was going to try and argue that point, the wording of the
rule would likely be "clarified" to eliminate any seeming discrepancy.
It seems pretty clear: Use of RBN by SO stations is prohibited. Period"
Sorry, I completely disagree with you, Ron and Bob. The rules should be
written as "Don't use RBN for any purpose" if that is the point of the rule.
When you write rules as legal documents then they have every right to read
exactly what it says and doesn't say. So it isn't "parsing" when you read
the rule 3 times and say - well it isn't "QSO alerting assistance" and that
is the only discussion going on here. And since it never says anything
about getting a signal report and not obtaining any of this information,
then there should be nothing wrong with it.
This isn't the constitution on parchment paper folks. It's a pdf document
that can be modified annually (or more so if desired). If that is what the
rules want to be saying, change them to say that. Just like other things
that are global. Like Power levels. Or log submission deadlines.
An example of one that is similar to this dialog is the definition of single
op. If someone is doing anything other than making QSOs or obtaining QSO
information, they are not considered an operator (ie getting food or making
a fix of an antenna mid contest etc). If we are disallowing wives from
helping with food, then we should be saying so as well.
Ed N1UR
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