Topband: FYI Robot contacts "outlawed" by ARRL

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

On 2019-08-21 2:22 PM, Ed Sawyer wrote:
> So I don't see anything preventing someone from seeing and clicking 
> on half a dozen calls before bedtime and waking up with all or many 
> of them worked.
No to press the subject but "contemporaneous" in the new rules would
prevent that.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 2019-08-21 2:22 PM, Ed Sawyer wrote:
> Actually, I think this topic is very relevant to the "fringe bands" like
> 160M and 6M.
> 
>   
> 
> The way I read the purposely non-detailed direction from the board
> "contemporaneous direct initiation by the operator on
> 
> both sides of the contact.".  With the known software in mind, that would
> look to say that as long as you click on the callsign to be worked, it
> counts, even if it got worked hours later while you slept.
> 
>   
> 
> But after it is worked, the next callsign has to have been clicked.  Which
> could be the next on the stack of calls of what you saw before you went to
> bed.
> 
>   
> 
> So I don't see anything preventing someone from seeing and clicking on half
> a dozen calls before bedtime and waking up with all or many of them worked.
> Since 160M is a nighttime band and often the peak is in the middle of the
> night local time for EU or AF, it's a very relevant 160M DX topic.
> 
>   
> 
> Is this okay?  I don't think so.
> 
>   
> 
> Ed  N1UR
> 
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