[CQ-Contest] Assisted or Not Assisted?

[Bill Coleman]

On 11/13/00 16:22, jbattin at jbattin at email.msn.com wrote:

>When you use a computer program that has in it thousands of calls  prepared
>by another party ..... Is that not assisted also... 

No. Having a table of callsigns isn't an active assistance. The table 
doesn't tell you what calls are actually on the air, nor does it replace 
the actual copying of callsigns. Such a table isn't any different than an 
experienced contester with a keen memory of worked callsigns.

>I think we are trying to
>legislate technology, which in the long run never works.

I believe the rules in this case mention little to nothing of technology, 
but only of people performing certain actions (eg operating, logging, 
spotting, etc).


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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