Thanks to modern, and allowed, unassisted technology, it's not that simple.
A competent, unassisted, operator will manually fill in the bandmap
going up (or down) the band, filling in callsigns as they go. There is
now software, such as NaP3 or Waterfall Bandmap, which superimpose a
waterfall or spectrum display on the bandmap. After the operator does a
pass up (or down) the band, each waterfall or spectrum trace will have a
callsign associated with it. A good, unassisted, operator will keep an
eye on the waterfall or spectrum trace, When a new trace appears,
without a callsign associated with it, the unassisted operator can
simply mouse-click on the trace, and send the radio to that frequency.
No need to tune a second VFO or radio using the "big knob". Listening to
a recording, this will be indistinguishable from a spotting-assisted
operator.
73,
Steve, N2IC
On 03/08/2017 04:24 PM, Peter Bowyer wrote:
It would likely show all of those things. It should be easy to spot the
difference between assisted and unassisted operation with a full recording.
Since the requirement is for all audio that the operator can hear, the
process of tuning a second VFO or second radio looking for mults whilst
CQing on the first should be discernable.
Of course there can be some confusion sometimes. One or two slightly
doubtful quick fire mults would not arouse suspicion. But patterns become
easy to spot.
Peter G4MJS
On 8 Mar 2017 11:15 p.m., "Jamie WW3S" <ww3s@zoominternet.net> wrote:
Is it required to show all the receive audio, even when tuning, etc, or
just the actual qso?
will it show, for example, if a station claiming no assistance was in the
middle of a good run, and qsy’d 20 kc or more to work one station, a new
mult, and then came back on the run freq?
would a show a station that shut down for the night one one freq, and then
then next morning worked three new, rare mults all on different frequencies
before starting a run of his own?
would it show that he/she was on, lets say, 28.435 for one new mult, tuned
down 10 kc in a minute for another, and then tuned up to 28.535 for yet
another new one? would it show all that tuning time (even though its only a
minute) and would it show tuning past other stations just to get to the
mults?
since I never heard any contest recordings this inquiring mind wants to
know.....
73
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