[UK-CONTEST] SSB Field Day '05

[Tom Wylie]

I'm not sure I agree



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Balls" <jim at j1mbo.f9.co.uk>
To: <nick.lewis at btinternet.com>; "Uk-Contest at Contesting.Com" 
<uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] SSB Field Day '05


>Hi Nick,

>The problem is the additional spotting receiver and antennas are at a
>separate station 150 yards away .. not the same station as the contest
>is being operated from and thats how they worked the rules to their
>advantage.


Just because they are 150 yards away doesn't mean they are not part of the 
same station.
If they have a common goal or purpose and have been erected to compliment 
the
transmitting station then they are art and part of the same station.    How 
many people go
off for a weekend in a field setting up a "spotting" station.

Hey - you cant pull the wool over my eyes.

I feel an urge to disqualify coming on!



>We have used the public DX cluster in the past and found that it does
>pick up the odd multi but no where near as much as a private cluster
>using a local receive station can, as this is assisted even more by
>checking the live log book and only spotting definite contacts required,
t>he public cluster data doesn't do this unless it's linked with the
>modern software, and it doesn't have to stop at a private cluster, so
l>ong as the rules do not stop all communications to the main station
>except for those on the main operating stations transceiver then the
>possibility of external assistance will be their,

Bad boys, bad boys, bad boys
what ya gonna do when they come for you!


I still feel in the restricted section the rules are OK, but we need to
take away the option for any external assistance, and I think Ian's
points on allowing 2 Receivers but only 1 antenna is also a very good.

Regards,

Jim

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Tom
GM4FDM