[CQ-Contest] Assisted vs Unassisted

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funny you should mention racewalking.....our local club provides communications for a 5k walk/run every Memorial Day....there are runners, walkers, and “racewalkers”......now you get a free t shirt, and a small certificate if you win....two years ago, there was an altercation between the racewalkers, seems one thought the other was running, not walking....it was “unbelivable” that someone that was following the racewalking rules could finish so fast...last year that individual was disqualifed.....looking forward to 2015 !!!!

> On 5/8/2015 7:53:19 PM, ko7ss--- via CQ-Contest (cq-contest at contesting.com) wrote:
> > The TO7A discussion is great, maybe the first time ever that log "details" and
> actual callsigns are posted in a thread like this.
> 
> The easy way to not worry about any of this is to just enter SOABHP(A). In this
> age of RBN and local skimmers and bandscopes, it seems almost archaic to have
> an unassisted class. Same with QRP/LP/HP. Why enter a competition with rules
> that can't possibly be enforced? Disqualification is via a contest committee.
> 
> I was watching an ESPN blurb on Olympic racewalking a few weeks ago (the show
> was about events that are becoming obsolete). This is the perfect analogy.
> 
> If the race is 10K long, imagine having two entry categories. The first is to
> just run from start to finish. Simple. The second is a special kind of race.
> One foot has to be on the ground at all time. To be DQ'd however, 3 judges have
> to see you off the ground, with the unaided human eye. It doesn't matter if
> slow motion video shows you off the ground with every stride. It doesn't
> matter if the judges just see you a few times during a race. And the judges
> can issue cautions. Not so simple. 
> 
> 73, Bill
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