[CQ-Contest] ARRL DX Contest Multioperator Station Guidelines

[Jeff Clarke]

Field Day isn't a contest

On 10/25/2020 08:51 PM, rjairam at gmail.com wrote:
> A one year exception, an accommodation, just like field day where we
> allowed home stations to treat it like any other contest and added
> affiliated club competition.
>
> Look at the CQWW results on 3830 this year. Probably just going to be
> team RHR and a couple of others, and maybe some who entered M/M to
> free themselves from M/S rules. Is that fun?
>
> "As an example, a group of Minnesota Wireless Assn (Est. 1910)
> operators could all stay home and sign “W0AIH” for the weekend instead
> of using their own personal call."
>
> Except that there will be no dupes allowed, all log software
> networked, and realistically one per band. There are 6 bands maximum
> they can play on. Multiple signals on each band still prohibited, so
> realistically at most 4-5 ops at a time. It will be quite different
> from affiliated club competition.
>
> Ria
> N2RJ
>
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 8:38 PM Hans Brakob <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How is that so?
>>
>> This scheme allows a group of scattered operators to operate from their home station as a geographically distributed “multi op” using a common call sign.
>>
>> As an example, a group of Minnesota Wireless Assn (Est. 1910) operators could all stay home and sign “W0AIH” for the weekend instead of using their own personal call.
>>
>> These are the same operators who, pre-COVID, would have gathered at “The Farm” for the weekend.
>>
>> How does this give “more people the opportunity to play”?
>>
>> 73, de Hans, KØHB
>> “Just a Boy and his Radio”™
>> ________________________________
>>
>> rjairam at gmail.com writes:
>>
>>> This accommodation gives more people the opportunity to
>>> play this go around.
>>
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