[UK-CONTEST] Revised Rule for the use of the DX Cluster in RSGBVHF/UHF Contests

[Cooper, Stewart]

The term 'database' can mean more than just super-check partial. Many contesters have customised databases of postcodes, locator squares, names, etc. Personally, I don't use super-check partial to complete a half-heard log entry. That would be pointless. However, it does help focus the mind in a noisy band as to what you might be hearing. I don't consider that to be putting me into an assisted category. I sometimes wonder if using the cluster gives one any assistance either, given all the c**p that it spits out.
In spite of all this I don't condone the breaking of rules.
73
Stewart
GM4AFF

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From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com on behalf of Roger Parsons
Sent: Sun 15/04/2007 03:38
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Revised Rule for the use of the DX Cluster in RSGBVHF/UHF Contests



Not sure whether this is new, or whether it applies to
HF contests, but it seems to me to ban the use of
'super check partial' and similar....

"4k.    All information must be copied off air at the
time of the QSO and on the band in use. Databases must
not be used to fill in missing information."

At the risk of (re)opening a can of worms, I have
never been able to understand the subtle distinction
between (a) external assistance in real time during
the contest from the cluster and (b) external
assistance in real time during the contest from a
database.

73 Roger
VE3ZI/G3RBP



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