[CQ-Contest] Non-assisted & Assisted

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

No sir.

With all due respect, I disagree.

If a contest does not explicitly offer a Single Op Assisted/Unlimited
category, your default choice is to enter Multi-Single.  

Should the particular contest in question not distinguish between SO & SO/A,
then you can enter said contest in the SO category with a clear conscience.
If in doubt, query the contest organizer.

This is as it always has been.  There are a significant number of SO
operators who choose to operate contests without the technological advantage
(if any) of the cluster network.  Why force them to make a change?

If someone feels that a particular contest should have an SO/A category, and
doesn't, then discuss it with the particular contest organizers.  Maybe the
category doesn't exist because no one has asked before... so who's fault is
it if no one who wants it asks?

73

-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Randy Thompson K5ZD
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 8:12 PM
To: 'Pete Smith N4ZR'; cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Non-assisted & Assisted

For these contests where there is no assisted category, instead of making
yet another category, why not just allow single ops to use assistance?!

Anyone licensed in the last 15 years has never experienced life without the
DX Cluster.  Perhaps it is time to accept this as it is - the new normal.

Randy, K5ZD


> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Pete Smith N4ZR
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 2:32 PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Non-assisted & Assisted
> 
> What Rich says is correct.  I would just add that the ARRL 10 and 160
> contests are severely anachronistic in this respect.  Nobody is
> suggesting that assistance be allowed for "pure" single-ops, but surely
> there should be a SOA category in these contests. That there is not dates
> back to the earliest days of DX clusters.  To my knowledge, nobody has
> advanced a reason for keeping the status quo.
> 
> I have been in correspondence with the CAC and various directors about
> this, and one told me that action might be taken in the January ARRL
> Board meeting, which has just taken place.  Why it requires a decision at
> that level is beyond me, but that's what we have.  Now waiting for
> detailed minutes to learn what, if anything, was done.
> 
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 1/25/2013 8:51 AM, Richard DiDonna NN3W wrote:
> > Usually if it says nothing, the assumption is that you must classify
> yourself as multi-single as the single operator rules have language about
> the -operator- doing all of the activity.
> >
> > ARRL 160 and ARRL 10 do not have separate assisted categories -
> necessitating that assisted ops enter as multi single entries.
> >
> > 73 Rich NN3W
> >
> > Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
> >
> > ----- Reply message -----
> > From: Ktfrog007 at aol.com
> > Date: Fri, Jan 25, 2013 7:30 am
> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] Non-assisted & Assisted
> > To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> >
> > If a contest's rules say nothing about Assisted operation, does that
> > mean it's allowed without restriction?
> >
> > Note that Single-Op has no uniform definition.  For example, in the
> > ARRL RTTY Roundup, Single-Ops cannot be Assisted, while in the CQ WPX
> > RTTY everyone can operate Assisted.
> >
> > 73,
> > Kermit (Ken) AB1J
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