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

[David Kozinn, K2DBK]

As long as we're playing Reductio ad absurdum, then let's assume that if
you work any station you should be considered Assisted since that station
assisted you in making contact with itself.


73,
     David, K2DBK
     k2dbk.com
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On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Tom Osborne <w7why at frontier.com> wrote:

> OK - I am running QRP and a station calls me running high power.
>
> His signal is about S-1 or 2 so if he was running low power I might not
> have heard him.  His HP helps me.
>
> Does this now mean I have to change my class to HP because a HP station
> called me?
>
> Getting silly,huh!  73
> Tom W7WHY
>
>
>
> >
> > On 5/23/2016 1:43:PM, Oliver Dröse wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Zack,
> >>
> >> My opinion FWIW: It depends on whether he ASKED to be spotted or not.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Does not make a difference, see below.
> >>
> >> Stations that are assisted in the contest can spot whoever they wish;
> they
> >>> have no idea of what category the station they are spotting is
> entering,
> >>> and they do it of their own free will.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Sure. Nonetheless it *is* helping the spotted station. Isn't that
> >> assistance, too? ;-)
> >>
> >> Now, if the other station ASKED to
> >>> be spotted, that's a whole different slant. I'd put him in the Assisted
> >>> category in that case.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Asking to be spotted is usually against the rules and base for a DQ
> >> rather than a reclassification (for CQ WW see IX. General Rules, bullet
> 4).
> >>
> >> 73, Olli - DH8BQA
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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