[CQ-Contest] CQWW Assisted - Is it just another Urban Myth ?

[MARK BAILEY]

Good day, everyone:

I agree with Ed.  WHY does any Assisted/Unlimited operator want to eliminate the Single Operator categories?  Single Operator categories make use of different skills and have the operator tuning the bands to find stations to work.  These skills ARE different.

What is being proposed isn't merging Single Operator and Assisted/Unlimited categories, though it is often described that way.  It is actually just elimination of Single Operator categories.

Yes, it may be impossible to detect all forms of cheating, but eliminating rules so the current methods of cheating are allowed is not the answer.

Eliminating low power and QRP categories and the rule for operating within license restrictions is not the answer for power cheating.

Eliminating the rules against using remote receivers isn't the answer for that form of cheating.

Eliminating the rules against having multiple operators in Unlimited/Assisted categories isn't the answer for cheating by getting help.

Eliminating band and mode change restrictions isn't the answer for "rubber clocking".

And so on....

73,

Mark, KD4D




> On August 1, 2017 at 7:22 AM Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> What is the motivation for Assisted Operators to even care if there is an
> unassisted class?  How is it harming you in any way that other - equally as
> important as you - people choose to contest the way we grew up and enjoyed
> it?  It doesn't bother me that its "possible" for someone in the class to
> cheat.  It didn't bother me that it was "possible" for someone to cheat in
> Low Power class when I choose to compete in that class.  I know what I am
> doing and I know when something smells bad out there as well.
> 
>  
> 
> I choose to compete in unassisted because I love the balance.  Others are
> simply looking at the efficiency gain of being fed spots and the fact that
> their eyes add another receptor beyond their 2 ears and that adds to their
> efficiency as well.  I have no strike against those and realize, it helps.
> Good for them.
> 
>  
> 
> Until someone can tell me how what I choose to do for my better enjoyment
> harms them, I respectfully ask for the ability to choose the class I better
> enjoy.
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>  
> 
> Ed  N1UR
> 
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