[CQ-Contest] All the Assisted ops, where do they all come from?

[Kelly Taylor]

Another silly misinterpretation of the rules.

The rules do not say you cannot be worked by assisted operators, merely that you cannot use assistance to find stations. 

If you're running, you have zero control over how the stations you worked found you, nor could you distinguish the difference. 

Rules are very simple; read what they say, do not read what they don't say. 

If the organizers wish for a certain interpretation, it is up to the organizers to say so. If they don't, then follow the written word and ignore unwritten words. 

73, kelly, ve4xt 

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> On May 21, 2016, at 7:44 AM, Mike Ritz <w7vo at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> You bring up a great point, Ken! I had never thought of it that way, and you are right. The only way an unassisted station can say he is truly unassisted is to not be spotted by another operator, or by a robot. I guess one needs to clarify the rules that unassisted stations cannot run, they must stick with strictly S&P. Makes sense to me! 
> 
> 73; 
> Mike 
> W7VO 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com> 
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 1:24:26 PM 
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] All the Assisted ops, where do they all come from? 
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> 
> 
> The common definition of Assistance refers to single operators who use 
> cluster spots, run their own skimmers or get some kind of outside help to find 
> stations. On CW and RTTY the spots are now gathered by skimmer robots 
> which efficiently skim up almost everything. On phone they are generated 
> manually by humans so there are fewer spots, but all the big running stations 
> and other significant stations get spotted. 
> 
> This Assistance is just one side of the coin, however. The other side is 
> the running stations who get spotted. They count on being spotted to 
> generate those huge runs and scores and if they claim to be Unassisted they are 
> not being honest. These operators are also Assisted. 
> 
> The only truly Unassisted stations are those single operators doing only 
> traditional S&P. These are often small operations and certainly do not 
> include the big, famous winning stations that dominate the competitions. 
> 
> Given these definitions, the majority of single operator stations are 
> Assisted which is why the two categories are converging, like it or not, and 
> why Unassisted should be eliminated 
> 
> 73, 
> Ken, AB1J 
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