[CQ-Contest] ARRL Rule Change for Remote Ops - Always Multi-op?

[jpescatore at aol.com]

Hans, looks like reading the part .105 definition of control operator, If I operate W4AAW remotely and Mike W4AAW designates me as control  op, I'm then both the station operator and the control op, so I can enter SO class. If he doesn't designate me as such, he is the control op - then it would have to be multi-op per new ARRL rule definition.  With the new wording, hard to figure out the spirit or the intent.


73 John K3TN



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From: Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com>
To: jpescatore <jpescatore at aol.com>; CQ-Contest <CQ-Contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thu, Jul 27, 2017 10:34 am
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL Rule Change for Remote Ops - Always Multi-op?


John,

I think the key word is “acts”.  

If the remote operator completely controls the station then the on-site presence of another (non-participating) licensee at the station isn’t germane.

However, if the on-site person acts as a participant in the operation (adjusts equipment, switches antennas, etc) then it would (from my view) be a multiple operator effort.

If the mere presence of another licensee on-site makes you multi-op, then I’ll have to send K0CKB (my XYL) to a hotel during every contest that I want to single-op.

73, de Hans, K0HB
“Just a Boy and his Radio”™

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 08:06 jpescatore--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

Bart - the wording of the rule change for remote operations ("If another operator acts as the on-site control operator of the remote station you are using, the entry must be submitted in a multioperator category") implies that there is no such thing as a single-op remote entry.


How does the control-op issue compare to a physical guest op, where the station owner is still physically present during the contest? Should such guest operations be considered multi-op as well? If the issue is that the local control op *might* be required to take some action, the same is true of the station owner with a physically present guest op.


73 John K3TN
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