[CQ-Contest] Casual vs organized "alerting"

[Ev Tupis]

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Imagine starting a contest and running the whole thing unassisted. In the
last 5 minutes, a station contacts you and, in the course of the exchange
says "thanks for the new one. Wow, I just got a P5 a few kcs down". Who
wouldn't take a look? Who really cares that you did? Should you now dismiss
the fact that you just operated for 47 hours and 55 minutes as an unassisted
op? You worked a rare one that gave you a few extra points and now have to
call yourself assisted because you found out some extraneous info?
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This sounds remarkably similar to a baseball player who smacks a loooooong ball and runs cleanly through 1st and 2nd base without incident.  She rounds 3rd base and the coach makes contact with her as she heads toward home.  What do the rules (http://www.umass.edu/vwhc/maryv/rules.html) say?

"It will be a[n umpire's] judgment call in regards to whether that contact in any way assisted the runner in staying on the base or redirecting her momentum towards home."

"Most" of the play was clean.  Assistance *can* change things, even if is applied at the very end.

Ev, W2EV


 
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