[CQ-Contest] Fw: Single Op/Get Scores Assisted

[RT Clay]

Sorry about the weird formatting: fixed below



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From: RT Clay <rt_clay at bellsouth.net>
To: "cq-contest at contesting.com" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, February 25, 2013 3:50:13 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Single Op/Get Scores Assisted


I don't think that would be legal. There are two parts to a "DX spot" that BOTH 
contain information:

1. the station's call
2. the frequency where that station is

Even if you only give someone SOME of all available information you are still 
giving assistance. The key here is that it is a frequency where another station 
is known to be located.

Note that you CAN do something slightly different: find the location of all 
signal peaks on a band. Those can be determined mathematically without needing 
to decode the station's callsign. Signal peaks could equally well be coming from 
RFI from your neighbor's plasma TV or someone tuning up as another contest 
station. This is what I do in my software SO2SDR. No internet is needed to do 
this. Yes, they  can then be used to determine what frequencies are clear.

Tor
N4OGW