[CQ-Contest] Packet use for single ops.

[John Unger]

There is another possibility to consider: completely ban the use of packet during contests. Just imagine, hams would actually have to find the rare mults all by themselves. 

When you think about it, there is no very good reason to allow packet spotting at all, except to support "assisted" category. I've heard the rationale that being able to spots mults (without receiving spots, of course) somehow supports "the club". Most of the big clubs seem to be built around serious multi-mult stations, which have one or two extra radios on each band just to find new mults.

We wouldn't have to worry about the possibility of anyone cheating using spots while operating single op if there were simply no spots to use...

73 - John, W4AU


At 12:46 PM 11/13/00 -03-30, you wrote:


>I'd like to thank all those who replied to my original posting.
>I'm compiling all the comments.
>My apologies to Yuri, K3BU, for posting my reply to one of his messages on
>the reflector: his message was private!.
>The positions till now are:
>78 % to allow packet for single ops.
>17 % to leave things the way they are.
>5 % not defined.
>
>Many of the guys who think that allowing packet for single ops is a bad
>thing, are ocasional contesters. While almost 90% of those who think that
>the use of packet by single ops would be OK, are well known hard-core
>contesters.
>
>I'm thinking of setting up a votation page somewhere on the web.
>
>73
>
>
>Martín Monsalvo, LW9EUJ
>lw9euj at qsl.net
>WWYC # 97
>LUCG # 2
>GACW # 509
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