[CQ-Contest] Little old ladies changing tires

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

Why is "assistance" undefined?  Is it?

That's a very odd statement.  I thought that when the various major contest
sponsors started adding a new SO category for those using packet, they
called it "Assisted" (or "Unlimited" for SS).

We've been so busy arguing over the trees -- what is or isn't
"assistance" -- that we've lost sight of the forest -- that "Assisted" was
created to cover a SO who uses a spotting network, either the original
Packet Cluster over the air or similar spotting systems via Internet.

Everything else may or may not entail "assistance" but it does not cover the
Assisted category.

73

-----Original Message-----
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:46:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Ev Tupis <w2ev at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Little old ladies changing tires
To: cq-contest at contesting.com

----- Original Message ----
From: Robert Naumann <w5ov at w5ov.com>
The issue here is not receiving some information and doing something with
it; it is *how* you came to receive the information.
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Interestingly, I believe that the issue is that the term "assistance" is
undefined, therefore it can be anything that the operator believes that it
is, in good conscience.

On-list discussions like this help to form opinions (you just opened my eyes
to another way of looking at it -- that I'm seriously pondering as my
opinion forms)...yet, until a sponsor comes forward and offers a definition,
it is simply discussion without possible resolution.

Ev, W2EV