[CQ-Contest] Assistance & Entry Status

[K0HB]

>
> I could go on and on.  But, my question is "why do we disallow some 
> forms of technological advances in contesting, but allow many, many, 
> many others?"  Or, do we equate the help from a "person" to the help one 
> gets from a stupid computer interfaced to the internet?
>

Hank,

I think (dangerous at my age) that the "assisted" category is for single
operator stations which obtain operating "intelligence" (callsigns, QRG's,
etc.) >>from the efforts of other operators<<.  That "intelligence" might
come from a spotting net, a cluster, <alt-f8>, or other means where
>>another operator<< contributes information to your real-time operation.

It has nothing to do with the technology which delivers the assistance. 
That information might come to you by an internet connection, packet
cluster, a carrier pigeon, or on a diskette labeled "master.dta" which you
picked up at a club meeting.

73, de Hans, K0HB
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