[CQ-Contest] Define Assistance in 25 words or less

[Radio K0HB]

Excellent!  No cluster, no RBN, no Super-check partial, and no prefill such
as call history.  Also no auto filled exchange element, such as zone.

Let’s put Radiomen back in radiosport.

73, de Hans, K0HB


On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 15:37 Jeff Blaine <KeepWalking188 at ac0c.com> wrote:

> Simple.  Assisted is using any source of a callsign other than from your
> head (CW/SSB) - or from your single signal decoder (CW/RTTY) on the
> operating QRG of the moment.  28 words (a few added to enhance clarity)
>
> 73/jeff/ac0c
> alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
> www.ac0c.com
>
> On 12-Aug-18 1:47 PM, ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest wrote:
> >
> >
> >
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> > Re: an Assisted NAQP category:
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hank Greeb <n8xx at arrl.org>
> > To: cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> > Sent: Sun, Aug 12, 2018 11:58 am
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest Digest, Vol 188, Issue 12
> >
> >
> > There's already an assisted  category.  Anyone who uses prefills from
> past NAQP's have been assisted by this feature of most logging
> software.What more do we need?I predict that in the near future we'll have
> a zero Op, one Transmitter, and even zero op, multi transmitter categories,
> with computers/robots doing all he copying, sending, receiving.Then we need
> not worry about assisted or non assisted. It will ALL be assisted while we
> sit back and drinque brown 807's and watch the computers battle it out.
> > 72/73 de n8xx
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The contest community should hire some underemployed lawyers to come up
> with a definition of Assistance.
> >
> >
> > Some say it's spotting information (clusters, RBN, skimmers).  Others,
> like N8XX, say it's exchange information.  Still others say propagation
> info, panadapters, SDRs, code readers, computers, the Internet, loggers,
> SCP, country files, CW keyers, keyboard CW, voice keyers, SO2R, remote
> operation, a comfy chair, a tolerant spouse, clear skies, fair winds and
> following seas, and so on.
> >
> >
> > I'd add in transceivers and SSB.  Try a phone contest sometime on AM
> with separate TX and RX. Log and dupe with paper and pencil (and eraser).
> Those were manly contests.
> >
> >
> > Air conditioning is nice, too, in the summer.
> >
> >
> > 73 and may the band rise to meet you,
> > Ken, AB1J
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73, de Hans, K0HB
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