Is it because they merged them, or is it because they never separated them
in the first place?
A lot of the relatively smaller (in terms of participants), and a good many
of the regional contests (like State QSO parties) never created a SO/A
category (or equivalent). Either the potential participation didn't warrant
it, or the potential SO/A ops went into a M/S category.
With regards to the perception... with all due respect to your friends, I
find the allegation that the "old fashioned" categories should be eliminated
because they "assume" that they are full of "cheaters" is both bunk and a
bit insulting. And that's all I'm going to say about that.
-- w3wn --
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Rich Assarabowski
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 9:35 PM
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I think everyone else in the world has merged the categories because no
other contest sponsors have the resources or ambition to do
the extensive log checking required to uncover the cheaters. I'm sure it
adds considerably to your work load to do all that added
log checking and to send out all those e-mails for suspected use of the
Cluster in the unassisted categories.
I frequently hear the statement made by my European friends that CQ and ARRL
are "technologically backward" by not eliminating the
"classic old-fashioned" unassisted categories which they assume is full of
cheaters. The frequent abuse in the QRP category is
the same reason why the QRP category is is becoming less popular, at least
in Europe.
--- Rich K1CC
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Randy Thompson K5ZD" <k5zd@charter.net>
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 8:07:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] cqcontest.net
>
> There is another option... Rather than continue to get twisted in
> defining the separation, we could merge SO and SOA into one and remove all
confusion.
> There could be an overlay category for the guys who want to compare
> themselves to other "classic" ops.
>
> It seems only CQ, ARRL, and SAC maintain the assisted concept. The
> rest of the world has moved on.
>
> Randy, K5ZD
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