[CQ-Contest] Mult passing: is it okay to use?

[Steve London]

I agree with W5OV, but let a few more provisions:

- If you are running several independent, single-operator, single-band entries 
from one location, you cannot pass multipliers (or non-multipliers) from one 
station to another station.

- If you are running a multi-single, you cannot bypass the band-change 
restrictions by using a different callsign to ask a multiplier to QSY to another 
band.

73,
Steve, N2IC

On 01/25/2011 06:28 AM, Bob Naumann wrote:
> Frank,
>
> As long as your entry category permits more than one signal on the air at
> the same time, passing of multipliers is one of the most effective methods
> of increasing multiplier counts.
>
> For example, if you are multi-multi, you can ask someone you work on one
> band to qsy to work your station on another band pretty much at any time you
> want - as long as you don't violate the one signal per band on the air at
> one time rule.
>
> If you are multi-single, you have to be careful about not violating band
> change restrictions. In other words, if you are running on one band, you
> can't just flip around on all the other bands looking for stations to pass
> to the band you're running on. The exact rules for multi-single can vary
> depending upon which contest you are participating in at the time.
>
> What class of entry is your group planning and for which contest? It might
> be better to discuss some specifics to be clear about what is and what is
> not allowed.
>
> 73,
>
> Bob W5OV
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Frank R. Oppedijk
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 1:36 AM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Mult passing: is it okay to use?
>
> Hi group,
>
> I'm a member of the PA6Z contest group and we're about to take up a
> technique that we haven't used earlier, namely that of multiplier
> passing. With this, I mean: asking a station on the band to QSY to
> another band, in order to also make a QSO on that other band.
>
> Voices went up saying that the technique of multiplier passing would
> be not allowed to use in some / most / all contests. Or at the least
> that it was a technique that would be frowned upon by the contest community.
>
> I am not aware of multiplier passing as being prohibited, or having a
> negative aura, and wonder if anyone of you has a definitive answer.
> And does the contest community frown upon the use of mult passing as
> a technique to increase the multiplier count?
>
> Thank you, 73,
>
> Frank PA4N
>
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