[CQ-Contest] Preview of CQWW Rules 2015

[Steve London]

Then you would say that using a local CW Skimmer is also okay in the 
unassisted category because it uses your own antennas and computers and 
equipment ?

That has never been allowed in the CQWW rules.

73,
Steve, N2IC

On 05/22/2015 10:23 AM, Paul Stoetzer wrote:
> Because that's not "assistance." It's just a different using a
> different method to demodulate the signals.
>
> There's no real reason to expand the definition of "assistance" from
> using DX clusters and the RBN. My view is that if you are solely
> receiving signals using your own antennas and your own computers and
> equipment, then you are not "assisted."
>
> 73,
>
> Paul, N8HM
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Steve London <n2icarrl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/21/2015 11:10 PM, Dick Green WC1M wrote:
>>>
>>> Comments on CWWW Rules 2015:
>>>
>>> VIII. DEFINITION OF TERMS
>>>
>>> 2. QSO alerting assistance
>>
>>
>>> The only thing the change does is prohibit
>>> single-frequency CW decoders, which provide no competitive advantage and
>>> may
>>> be needed by ops with hearing problems.
>>
>>
>> It doesn't "prohibit" single-frequency CW decoders, it just means that use
>> of a single-frequency CW decoder places you in the Assisted category. What's
>> so bad about that ?
>>
>> 73,
>> Steve, N2IC
>>
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