[CQ-Contest] Assisted or Not Assisted?

[Bill Coleman]

On 11/13/00 18:04, Ted & Joyce Wilhelm at k9huh at icss.net wrote:

>What about the guy running a second radio?????Isn't he getting some
>assistance also, allbeit it is his on skills..

No, he's not getting assistance, because there's no other PERSON 
assisting him. He's performing all of the functions (operating, logging, 
spotting) himself.

>BUT the way I see it
>"assistance is assistance" meaning anything more than ONE receiver nad
>ONE transmitter at any time is not a singnal transmitter single operator
>class...

So, all those guys with FT-1000(D or MP)'s who use dual receive are 
suddenly assisted? After all, these radios have dual receivers.

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Assistance has to COME FROM A PERSON. That's the distinguishing 
characteristic. Not the technology of the radios or station setup.



Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901


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