[CQ-Contest] Consider This

[Leigh S. Jones, KR6X]

Mike -- 

Beyond the issue of whether SO2R deserves a category by itself 
there's a new one that is seldom mentioned.

If a contest sponsor were to create an SO2R category, then would
there be any way to enforce it?  Or could the sponsor simply be
creating a new way to cheat?

Admittedly, if the two rigs are on two different bands one could
draw inferences from the number of bandchanges that occur.

But SO2R can be implemented using two rigs and two antennas
on the same band in a few cases.  It might sound far fetched on
the surface, but the cross-rig interference potential isn't completely
insurmountable.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Gilmer - N2MG" <n2mg at contesting.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:31
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Consider This


> On Tue, 23 April 2002, W0uo at cs.com wrote
> 
> > It may be that, like SO Assisted, SO2R is not a 
> > significant advantage.  Its time we found out. 
> 
> This is the wrong question.
> 
> No one said that SO2R was not an advantage.  From what 
> I've read, most agree that it is a significant 
> advantage.  Anything that provides a detectable 
> improvement to one's score is a "significant" 
> advantage - IOW, one worth undertaking.  If it wasn't 
> an advantage, why would anyone bother doing it?
> 
> The right question is:  Does SO2R warrant a separate 
> category (and why)?  The number of things providing 
> (significant or otherwise) advantage is virtually 
> endless and they have been listed here ad nauseum.  
> Virtually none of them have a distinct category.  Why 
> does SO2R stand out in some minds?  I sense it is not 
> simply because it offers an advantage.  To me it 
> almost seems like it is simply because it is a 
> politically-correct-to-question operating technique.
> 
> Is it a bolt-on advantage like an amplifier?  No, SO2R 
> requires a high degree of skill to use.  Is it like 
> packet?  No, all advantages from SO2R come from within 
> one's own efforts.  Is it like having big antennas 
> (which generally have no separate category)?  No, most 
> of the work required to extract an advantage from big
> antennas is done well before the contest period.
> 
> 73 Mike N2MG
> 
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