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

Jeff Blaine KeepWalking188 at ac0c.com
Mon Aug 13 14:36:27 EDT 2018


I don't know about call history and SCP.  Those provide a list, not a 
single call.  And I believe that those are universally accepted.

The issue seems to be for guys who want to use the cluster in contests 
that prohibit the use.  So the right answer there is to get a new 
category introduced (which is what started the NAQP discussion), or to 
find another contest to play in.  I personally think adding an assisted 
mode category to NAQP would be a good thing because it would help push 
up participation.

73/jeff/ac0c
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
www.ac0c.com

On 13-Aug-18 9:53 AM, Radio K0HB wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <http://www.ac0c.com>
>
>     On 12-Aug-18 1:47 PM, ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Re: an Assisted NAQP category:
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > -----Original Message-----
>     > From: Hank Greeb <n8xx at arrl.org <mailto:n8xx at arrl.org>>
>     > To: cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com
>     <mailto: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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