[CQ-Contest] Assisted?

[Scott Nichols]

I was asked by no less than 10 European stations to put them on the cluster
during ARRL DX SSB...Two that come to mind are well known, high scoring
operations...READ THE RULES GUYS!!! I suspect this kind of violation could have
you turfed from the competition...

Scott, VE1OP

George Fremin III - K5TR wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:03:15PM -0500, Jamie Dupree wrote:
>
> > I was doing my normal S&P during the ARRL DX SSB and was asked
> > by some European DX stations if I had access to the internet -
> > in order to spot them.
> >
> > But I felt it raised an interesting question - if that station is running
> > unassisted - is that possibly a rules violation in that category?
> > I assume I wasn't the first or the last person asked to do that.
> >
>
> It is a rules violation even if they are in a catagory
> that allows assistance.
>
> from:
>
> http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/rules-all.html
>
> 3.14. In contests where spotting nets are permissible, spotting your
>       own station or requesting another station to spot you is not
>       permitted.
>
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