[CQ-Contest] Random acts of kindness

[Bill Turner]

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On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:33:15 -0600 (CST), stoskopf at tri.net wrote:


>After that, every S&P contact
>I made ended with S9SS on XXXXXXX.  Geeze, I turned all of those guys into
>assisted category?  No more kindness I guess.

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Not so, at least in ARRL contests. The ARRL White Paper on contest
practices states that information casually overheard is fair game for
unassisted operators. It becomes a problem only when the spot info is
fed to you personally. 

In your example, there was no personal feeding of info and the other
operators who overheard the QSO can remain unassisted.

Bill, W6WRT