[CQ-Contest] Casual vs organized "alerting"

[Paul J. Piercey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve Maki
> Sent: November 30, 2006 02:47
> To: cq-contest
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Casual vs organized "alerting"
> 
> Paul J. Piercey wrote:
> 
> >> But what if during the SS I ask folks I am working to tell 
> me where 
> >> the VE8 is or for that matter if I keep telling folks on frequency 
> >> that I need VE8.
> >>
> >> Some of them (esp. those with packet) might be inclined to tell me 
> >> since it is very easy for them to do so.  This is just 
> wrong.  And is 
> >> really no different than if I had been logged into the DX spotting 
> >> system myself.
> >>
> > 
> > If you request/get specific info and use it, you are 
> assisted. Period.
> 
> 
> I guess we can't call "CQ contest especially VE8" or "CQ zone 
> 29" for fear that someone will help us in some unforeseen way.
> 
> It's complicated nowdays...
> 
> Steve K8LX


I am not the source of that entire passage but I think you misunderstood my
point. You CAN CQ/ask for a specific zone, prefix or mult and be unassisted.
You CANNOT ask someone/anyone to tell you where one is and be unassisted.
Just as you CANNOT take unsolicited info, act upon it and be unassisted. If
you want to enter a contest and work nothing but Mexican stations, there is
nothing in any rules to stop you from doing that or stop you from making
that purpose abundantly clear in your CQing. The problem arises when you ask
others to tell XE stations where you are or ask others where other XE
stations are located.

If I'm tuning by and hear you call "CQ VO1", I'll try to answer you no
problem.


73 -- Paul VO1HE