Topband: Timor Leste post cqww report

[Jim Brown]

On 11/28/2023 5:05 AM, Dietmar Kasper wrote:
> 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 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 be either local
> or remote.

They might want to start enforcing this with several of their midwest 
SCMs who have been running nearly fulltime BOTs on 6M FT8 for well over 
a year. They have been complained about to the League by serious 
weak-signal 6M ops.

73, Jim K9YC