[CQ-Contest] Keep it to yourself: The only consistent method

[K0HB]

> [Original Message]
> From: Mike Gilmer <n2mg at contesting.com>
> To: CQ-Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Date: 12/5/2006 3:50:24 PM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Keep it to yourself: The only consistent method
>
> KR2Q wrote: 
> > If you call CQ WY or CQ zone 40, then that is NOT 
> > assisted.  If you end up working that 
> > sought after mult, it is because of YOUR action 
> > directly with the other party.
>
> You have still made a defacto plea for Good Samaritans
> to send you Wyoming stations.
>
> To wit: What if some Good Sam hears you call CQ WY and
> later on, while the Good Sam is running himself, a WY 
> calls him and then your Good Sam tells the WY to go to
> your frequency?  Or that same Good Sam posts your 
> request on packet?
>
> This is why Tree's suggestion to not mention needed
> mults AT ALL is the only consistent method.  Can there
> be anything simpler?
>
> Mike N2MG

Mike, that's so funny I splurted coffee all over my monitor when I read it!

Carried to it's logical extreme, you couldn't even call "CQ SS" because
someone might hear you, spot you, and that assistance would send stations
to your run QRG.  Ergo, unless you only S&P, you are making a "defacto plea
for Good Samaritans" to spot your run QRG.  Calling CQ makes you assisted. 
Exclusively S&P is the ONLY way, using your logic consistently, that you
can claim "unassisted".

Can there be any simpler answer?

Good luck on this one now!

73 es beep beep,

de Hans, K0HB
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