[RTTY] CQ-Contest SO2R

[Michael Keane K1MK]

At 11:08 AM 9/15/2007, Bill Turner wrote:
>ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
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>On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:29:36 -0600, "Jay Kloss" <n4cbk.jay at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
> >
> >I would be willing to bet that the guys who are running SO2R are
> >judging their relative success by comparing their scores to the other
> >guys who run SO2R.
>
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>You would lose that bet, Jay. This issue has been debated for a couple
>of years on this and other reflectors, and WITHOUT EXCEPTION, the SO2R
>guys want their score listings COMBINED with the SO1R guys.

The objection that I hear is to the idea of an SO2R category which is 
distinct from the historically unlimited SO category rather than 
adding an SO1R category as a restricted form of SO.

>Make of that what you will,

As long as the difference between proposing an SO2R category versus 
an SO1R category is not seen as more than a trivial semantic 
distinction, then Joe, Charlie, et al. are right... Here we go again. :-)

73,
Mike K1MK

Michael Keane K1MK
k1mk at alum.mit.edu