[CQ-Contest] Radio Amateurs of Canada Winter Contest - December 18, 2021 00:00 to 23:59 UTC

[Michael Adams]

However, using a skimmer, even a private-not-connected-to-the-spotting-network skimmer, still makes you assisted.   RAC rules consider SO(A) to be M/S.

Since I play for fun rather than competitiveness, I'm not inherently bothered by putting SO(A) and M/S in the same competitive class (it helps address the problem of too many categories giving rise to the "everyone's a winner" phenomenon, after all).  But I do have to question, given the rise of SO2R, whether it makes sense to impose the 10-minute band change rule on SO(A) ops.

When I submit logs to RAC contests, they're checklogs for this reason.  My primary goal when contesting is to maximize my fun, and having to pay attention to the band change timer detracts from my fun.

-- 
Michael Adams | mda at n1en.org

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Subject: [CQ-Contest] Radio Amateurs of Canada Winter Contest - December 18, 2021 00:00 to 23:59 UTC

>From the rules: Single-ops using skimmer spots must classify themselves as Multioperator-Single transmitter entries

Really? In 2021? How exactly do you check to see if this rule is being followed? Is it a gentleman's agreement?

My skimmer is local and I can disconnect it from the internet. So it must be me, myself and I as the operators....

73, Bill KO7SS