A rule change to permit the appearance of additional activity, by manufacturing
contacts under a second or third or fourth callsign?
Doesn't strike me as a good idea.
I think a better idea would be to try and recruit more people to operate in
Sweepstakes. In other words, actually increase activity with an increase in
operators, not an increase merely in callsigns.
73, ron W3WN
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From: Jim Stahl via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
To: Alan Dewey via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, Nov 6, 2017 10:17 am
Subject: [CQ-Contest] So Sunday Sucked?
For all who stuck it out to the bitter end in SS, it is clear that it is time
for a rules update for ARRL contests, specifically doing away with general
rules 3.3 and 3.5:3.3.An operator may not use more than one call sign from any
given location during the contest period.3.5.A transmitter used to contact one
or more stations may not be subsequently used under any other call during the
contest period, except for family stations where more than one call has been
issued, and then only if the second call sign is used by a different operator.
(The intent of this rule is to accommodate family members who must share a rig
and to prohibit manufactured or artificial contacts.)------------------------As
many of you are aware, for many years I’ve been doing “Single Operator Multi
Station” efforts in SS, typically operating from four different stations in an
effort to turn SS into a 24 hour ratefest. Now that I’m a Florida snowbird,
that has been reduced to two efforts, this year a QRP effort as K8MR with the
KX3 from a waterfront parking area, and a LP effort with the K3 from the condo
as W3USA.It was a lot more fun to be working people in the second effort from
W3USA who I had previously worked from K8MR. I’m sure nobody was bothered that
I gave them an extra QSO by using two stations.My take is that these rules were
put in many years ago to prevent “manufactured” contacts by friends, fellow
club members or whoever. In the days of paper logs that may have made sense.
But with today’s log checking it is a lot easier to find suspicious
manufactured contacts. Even though a person “ manufacturing” a few QSOs is not
likely to send in a log of those QSOs.Some reasonable limits might be in order,
such as a minimum off time from a previous call before it could be used again,
or even not allowing any return to using a previous call. But if a few hundred
people were to decide on Sunday afternoon (or whenever) to fire up their
stations with a new call, and have fun running some good rates while giving the
full time folks new people somebody to work, would anybody really mind? 73 -
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