[UK-CONTEST] Real-time sharing of logs between stations in AFS teams

[Steve Knowles]

Hello Rob

Your proposals were discussed (independently) at our Committee Meeting by 
the HF and VHF sections of the Contests Committee.  Both groups reached the 
same conclusion - that your proposals were not acceptable (under General 
Rule 4(f) at HF and General Rule 4(i) at VHF).

73

Steve
G3UFY
Secretary, RSGB CC



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Chipperfield" <robert at syxis.co.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 3:13 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Real-time sharing of logs between stations in AFS 
teams


> Hi all,
>
> A wonder: considering, for the most part, the VHF/UHF AFS contests, is
> it acceptable for different members of a team to have a (close to)
> real-time view of other team members' logs? (Maybe with exchange data
> such as serials / locators redacted?)
>
> My use case goes roughly as follows: if station A works a station in
> S&P, it's useful for stations B/C/D to know about that, even if it's not
> following a cluster spot. Clearly self-spotting on the cluster is
> prohibited, but if it's a non-public link (assume: Internet based)
> between stations within one team, knowing the frequency your team
> members are currently operating on confers no advantage (I'm assuming
> that when you're within a few km of each other as required by AFS, all
> team members will work each other quite happily anyway - just look for
> the 59+60 signal!).
>
> Rule 4.i prohibits the "active use of spotting networks", but does
> encourage the spotting of DX stations not on your frequency. So since
> it's allowable to spot DX stations worked whilst S&P on the public
> cluster, is it also allowable to pass this information directly to your
> other team members?
>
> Stations worked whilst calling CQ would be less useful to the other
> stations, but not entirely useless: knowing there's a load of stations
> you haven't worked in IO83 yet, but a fellow member has for example,
> could encourage team members to spend a little longer beaming in that
> direction.
>
> All very early thoughts at this stage, but I wonder what the opinion is?
>
> Many thanks,
> Rob, M0VFC
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