[CQ-Contest] : Reverse beacon of my own call?

[David Gilbert]

It's "difficult to understand" because it's poorly written.   Both CW 
Skimmer and the Reverse Beacon Network have multiple modes and multiple 
uses, some of which provide QSO alerting assistance and some of which 
don't in the slightest.  CW Skimmer in Blind Mode is merely a good 
waterfall display, and monitoring the RBN only for your own callsign is 
no different than monitoring one of the propagation tracking sites 
(which regularly get promoted here on this reflector) that use actual 
reported contacts.  The term "e.g" stands for exempli gratia, which 
means "for example".   Directly equating CW Skimmer and the RBN to "QSO 
alerting assistance" as described in VIII.2 is no different than 
prohibiting the use of N1MM as a logger because it can capture cluster 
spots and display them on a bandmap.

You want to take away the confusion?  Fix the rule.

Dave   AB7E



On 7/25/2013 5:15 AM, Bob Naumann wrote:
> I apologize for possible redundancy, but this seems to be difficult to
> understand:
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> The rules specifically say:
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> 1)      QSO alerting assistance of any kind is prohibited (see VIII.2).
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> 2)      (VIII.2) QSO alerting assistance: The use of any technology or other
> source that provides call sign or multiplier identification along with
> frequency information to the operator. It includes, but is not limited to,
> use of DX cluster, packet, local or remote call sign and frequency decoding
> technology (e.g., CW Skimmer or Reverse Beacon Network), or operating
> arrangements involving other individuals.
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> It is named specifically in the list of example technologies that are
> prohibited.  There is no exception in the rules for using it only as a
> "propagation monitoring tool".
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> W5OV
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