[CQ-Contest] "Back in the day" -- Single- or Multi-op?

Pete Smith N4ZR pete.n4zr at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 14:46:14 EDT 2023


Tools are tools, Jim - thank goodness that progress continues.

73, Pete N4ZR

On 10/12/2023 1:42 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 10/12/2023 6:58 AM, Zack Widup wrote:
>>   Rules can be changed.
>
> Yes. Contesting has changed drastically over the years. When many of 
> us started, we logged on paper and kept paper dupe sheets. There were 
> no memory keyers. And then there was one that kept track of serial 
> numbers! Contest rules have gotten dumber. All of the attention paid 
> to "records" is nonsense.
>
> Use of Check Partial is, in reality, assistance. So are Call History 
> files. N1MM depends on CH files to determine whether a spot is a 
> multiplier.
>
> Some state QSO parties consider a person who drives while another 
> operates a second operator.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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