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

[Robert Chipperfield]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the clarification.

Rob, M0VFC

On 11/11/2010 23:14, Steve Knowles wrote:
> 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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