[CQ-Contest] Looking up on QRZ.com

[Doug Bates]

Art,
I don't claim to know all, but it strikes me as strange that a callsign
lookup on any database could be against any rules. The nearest thing I can
think of that may be anywhere near related in the rules of some contests is
forbidding "Assisted" where contesters follow a cluster to find contacts
that are currently reported as being on. Callsign lookup does not seem to
me to be anywhere close to using a cluster to find contacts. But what do I
know:)
73 & God Bless
De KV4ZY

On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 9:24 PM Art Boyars <artboyars at gmail.com> wrote:

> On the N1MM reflector somebody asked about how to use the "QRZ" button
> during the contest for calls that don't appear in the "check" window.  I
> guess he was talking about the SCP or CHF data files loaded into N1MM.
>
> A few people commented that looking it up on QRZ.com (or some other online
> database??) during the contest was against the rules.
>
> I don't see any difference between using an online databas and using SCP
> and CHF (except that SCP/CHF is faster).
>
> What do you wise people think?
>
> 73, art K3KU
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