[Nodxa] DXCC VUCC ARRL Contests: no automated contacts

[john at papays.com]

Per ARRL Letter 8/22/2019

ARRL Contest and DXCC Rules Now Prohibit Automated Contacts

ARRL has incorporated changes to the rules for all ARRL-sponsored 
contests and DXCC, prohibiting automated contacts and requiring that an 
actual operator is initiating and carrying out a contact. These changes 
also apply to Worked All States (including Triple Play and 5-Band WAS), 
Fred Fish W5FF Memorial, and VUCC awards. The
changes are effective immediately and affect the rules for both HF 
contests, and VHF/UHF contests as well as DXCC.

A resolution at the July ARRL Board of Directors meeting pointed to 
"growing concern over fully automated contacts being made and claimed" 
for contest and for DXCC credit. The rules now require that each claimed 
contact include contemporaneous direct initiation by the operator on 
both sides of the contact. Initiation of a contact may either be local 
or remote.