[CQ-Contest] Keep your CTY files updated

[Zack Widup]

My understanding is that any external help you get outside of the
contest period (before) is valid. You can make skeds before the
contest by non-amateur means to your heart's delight. Just don't do it
during the contest.

Quite a few DXpeditions have published lists of their operating
frequencies. Some have participated in contests. This fits into the
same category.

Those lists you mention also do, if you got them before the contest started.

73, Zack W9SZ

On 2/25/13, Hank Greeb <n8xx at arrl.org> wrote:
> Shucks, I though "external help" wasn't permitted for the Single Op
> categories.  Why isn't the use of a "scavenged" list of locations from
> previous contests considered "external help?"
>
> All this chitter chatter about folks "illegally using" the RBN and/or DX
> clusters when operating Single Op....  but no comment about flagrant
> promotion of a "seemingly obvious" violation of the rules???  As
> "Weekend Update" on "Saturday Night Live" is prone to say,  "REALLY?
> REALLY???    REALLY?????" (Sorry, no html formatting allowed in this
> reflector, at least not in the digest mode which I use, because of the
> sheer volume of redundant flames which seem to be so ubiquitous.)
>
> Prey tell me, why is the use of all this external help NOT a violation?
> For me, I find the "help" provided by N1MM software to be more of a
> nuisance than useful.
>
> 72/73 de n8xx Hg
> QRP >99.44% of the time
>
> On 2/25/2013 6:35 AM, Barry <w2up at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:57:58 -0700
>> From: Barry<w2up at comcast.net>
>> To:"cq-contest at contesting.com"  <cq-contest at contesting.com>
>> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Keep your CTY files updated
>>
>> I hate post a non-skimmer topic, but...:-)
>>
>> Just reviewed by CQWW SSB UBN report.  16 stations I worked lost points
>> for "miscopying" my zone as 5, rather than 4.
>>
>> For those of you who like to keep manual notes, I moved from PA to CO 3+
>> years ago.  The keepers of the CTY files have been aware of this, and my
>> callsign has been listed as a zone exception since I relocated.
>>
>> Moral of the story - Update these files regularly.
>>
>> Barry W2UP/0
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