[CQ-Contest] WW-Digi Contest -- Rule Clarification

[Jim Rhodes]

Well it could be considered seperate signals, but actually what is beig
transmitted is three tone sets on one signal. The receivers on the other
end decode them as 3 seperate signals because that is what the audio sounds
like. And the remark about the operator doing a good job of handling the
simultaneous contacts should mention the computer and the programmer
instead. It is all basically automatic.

Jim Rhodes
K0XU

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019, 18:13 V Sidarau <vs_otw at rogers.com> wrote:

> Dave,
> You are not alone, yet another crying wolf here...
> I have had some direct correspondence on this very topic. I proposed to
> change the rule to "Only one signal on the band of operation is permitted
> at any time". My idea was not accepted.
> Now that you describe a factual occurrence of several signals per band,
> perhaps (and hopefully) the contest sponsors will revert to considering
> this topic again.
>
> 73,
> Vlad VE3TM
>
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> David Gilbert
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> Subject: [CQ-Contest] WW-Digi Contest -- Rule Clarification
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>
> Although it is certainly implied, the rules listed on the WW-Digi
> website do not specifically prohibit using more than one signal at the
> same time ON THE SAME BAND for the single op category.  They say that
> transmission can only be on one band at a time, but they don't say you
> can't make multiple transmissions at the same time on the same band.
>
> The reason I bring this up is that I just witnessed 5T5PA making three
> separate FT8 transmissions on 20m to three different stations all within
> the same fifteen second window.  A short time later I saw two separate
> transmissions from him to two different stations (and different stations
> than the previous three), again all within the same fifteen second
> window.  Each simultaneous transmission was spaced exactly 60 Hz apart,
> and the software cleanly decoded all signals as if they were from
> different callsigns.  5T5PA expertly managed all the QSOs cleanly.
>
> Interestingly enough, even though I've worked 5T5PA before, JTAlert only
> labeled one of the three as a dupe.
>
> I can think of more than a couple of ways 5T5PA could be doing this, and
> for casual operation I see no problem with it.  For a DXpedition, it
> might even make a lot of sense.  I don't remember it being against
> FCC/other laws, but I could be wrong about that.  In any case, it seems
> to me that it could open up the possibility for some controversy in a
> contest.
>
> Or maybe I'm just crying wolf here ...
>
> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
>
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