I think this discussion is getting overheated. Adding or not adding another
category will not mean the end of contesting as we know it. People who take the
other side of the argument are not ogres or demons, nor are they igoramuses,
they are just people with another point of view.
IMHO, listening on another band while your radio is transmitting is a great
idea, and no-one is being penalized, stigmatized, or whatever for using this
technique in the open single-operator class; nor should they be. But I also
think that the distinction based on whether a station is using this
multiplexing technique or not is pretty significant, perhaps up there with
using HP vs. using LP, and the NAQP and other contest results would be more
meaningful and potentially useful to me if I could see which stations were
using this method and which ones were not. The simplest way to do this is to
create another category, but it's not the only way - lumping everyone in the
same category while reporting the information in an added column would achieve
pretty much the same result for me.
I can get more fun out of looking at the results if I know which other stations
are most comparable to mine. Give me the information so I can see how I am
doing relative to my peers, and also some real data on how much of an
improvement I could hope to achieve by doing whatever it takes to adopt this
technique. The end result is that I will get more fun out of contesting and
participate more - isn't that what everyone wants?
73,
Rich VE3IAY
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