[CQ-Contest] self help during contest

[Ed K1EP]

I know that the practice that Dick and Doug refer to is commonly 
done, what I was "suggesting" was the practice of reviewing an audio 
file during the contest and correcting the log after the Q has been made.

At 12/8/2008 01:43 PM, Dick Green WC1M wrote:
>This is common practice in large M/M stations with multiple radios per band.
>CT even has a "Partner" mode which allows the second-radio op to enter
>his/her version of the call and have it displayed just below the entry box
>on the screen of the run op.
>
>73, Dick WC1M
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kr2q at optimum.net [mailto:kr2q at optimum.net]
> > Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:01 PM
> > To: k1ep.list at gmail.com
> > Cc: wc1m at msn.com; cq-contest at contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] self help during contest
> >
> > I don't think it is a loop-hole at all.  Multi-ops, as far as I know,
> > have ALWAYS had the
> > ability and option to have more than one op per operating frequency.
> > In other words,
> > if N2AA is running on 7001, it was not uncommon to have two ops
> > listening to 7001.
> >
> > I know that I did that when I was M/M.  It was not uncommon for each
> > of the two ops to
> > either share the callsign that "they" copied (and it was always
> > amazing to me how two
> > guys would copy separate stations), or they could "help" each other to
> > get a single callsign
> > right.  When the pile up is that big, there are plenty of calls to
> > copy and having two heads
> > copying just keeps things boiling at a higher rate.
> >
> > I haven't done M/M in about 20 years, but isn't this still a
> > reasonable practice for multi-ops?
> >
> > de Doug KR2Q
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ed K1EP
> > Date: Monday, December 8, 2008 11:39 am
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] self help during contest
> > To: wc1m at msn.com, kr2q at optimum.net, cq-contest at contesting.com
> >
> > > So in that vain, in a MM, you could a non-operator as a
> > > "reviewer". He or she would review the recorded audio for any
> > > questionable QSO that was flagged by an op. The op could
> > > continue to
> > > op and the reviewer would make any corrections to the log. As
> > > long
> > > as it takes place during the 48 hours, it would be legal. I am
> > > NOT
> > > suggesting this be done, but it is a "loophole" within the rules.