[CQ-Contest] NAQP CW this weekend

[Jim Brown]

Knowing that those bands are open and viable is important information, 
and requires operator attention to discover (a spare radio tuned to the 
band with a suitable antenna), as well as the attention of the operator 
away from the band where he's operating.  WRTC rules considered that 
assistance, and set up conditions for the teams that prevented their 
access to that information from third parties.  I strongly concur with 
that concept.

FWIW -- a year or so ago, a determination was made that use of a code 
reader was assistance, because in SO2R operation, an operator could use 
a reader (like Skimmer) to show stations that could be easily picked off 
by QSYing to the station on Skimmer.  In NAQP CW this weekend, a member 
of our club noted that he was put into M/2 by that ruling.

73, Jim K9YC

On 8/7/2017 4:26 AM, N4ZR wrote:
> I missed both 15 and 10-meter openings this past weekend, for example 
> - had I noticed on the scoreboard that othernearby stations were on 
> these bands, this would not have happened, particularly given the 
> band-by-band multiplier scheme in NAQP.To me, that meets the smell 
> test as "assistance".