[UK-CONTEST] The writing on the wall-part 2

[Cooper, Stewart]

I don't see Assisted entries scoring consistently better than Unassisted in contests.
In fact, it's a clever distraction, to feed all the Assisted ops with lots of busted calls and stuff they worked 24 hours before.

73
Stewart
GM4AFF

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Clive Whelan
Sent: 14 February 2007 00:09
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] The writing on the wall-part 2


I recently posted a reply from DARC regarding my whinge
about their failure to support a non-assisted category in
the WAE event, which indicates that they will maintain their
current position, and will even consider abandoning the
marking of non-assisted entries in the results table.

I also quoted several other major events which have already
gone down that road, but noted that our transatlantic
cousins were still holding the line, although I still think
there is no smoke without fire with respect to the rumours
of ARRL's ( hotly disputed) consideration of global cluster
permission; perhaps I am paranoid but.....

I had a dabble in CQ WPX RTTY at the weekend, although this
is not really my bag. Imagine my horror therefore when my
attention was drawn to the following snippet from the rules:

<snip>Any form of DX alerting assistance is permitted in ALL
categories.<snip>

I confess that I am not aware whether perhaps this is the
norm in CQ sponsored RTTY contests ( no doubt someone will
tell me), but either way it does nothing to make me any more
sanguinary about the future of the non-assisted categories.

So forget about supporting petitions to Downing St. Get on
your soapbox ( the virtual one in your Cabrillo file) and
tell CQ what they can do with global cluster permission.


73


Clive
GW3NJW

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