[CQ-Contest] CQWW SSB 2017 Effective DQ

[Michael Adams]

If you log a station without receiving a complete call, it's probable that some form of assistance is at work.  On more than one occasion, I've worked you having only heard your call as "WKI", for example.  If the signal strength and exchange information matches what I would expect...

I suppose there is a slight chance that one "read" the callsign on a radio's spectrum display, while working elsewhere, but that feels like the grey area where "unassisted" ends and "assisted" begins.

I suppose also that there's a chance that someone's familiarity with contester callsigns is sufficient to achieve the same effect...but I would have thought that if that were common, stories of that would already be part of contester lore.

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Michael Adams | mda at n1en.org

-----Original Message de VE3KI -----


But just how would a recording tell them whether you were assisted? Because you jumped directly from one S&P QSO to the next without tuning through intervening frequencies?