[UK-CONTEST] SO or is it SO

[Regwoolley at aol.com]

At Last years RSGB Convention. During the VHF contest forum. One thing  
G4CLA said was " Before the contest starts take some time to read the rules! It 
 seems this is just as true on HF as it is on VHF contests 
 
Reg G8VHI 
 
 
In a message dated 07/08/2011 12:56:38 GMT Daylight Time, g0orh at sky.com  
writes:

Ummm,  thats not good info Clive, wish you posted this earlier!!! I put in 
a serious  effort for nothing then.
Why o why not state this in the rules, nothing  what so ever on rbn skimmer 
use.
No point in sending in my log now I  guess!!
Nearly 800 QSO's unassisted category or so i thought....not  happy.

Ken..G0ORH  

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On 7 Aug 2011, at 12:32, Clive GM3POI  <gm3poi2 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> It appears that a number of  organisers of Contests are changing the 
> meaning of SO as a category.  Yesterday saw the EU Hf Championships held 
> by the SCC see:  http://lea.hamradio.si/~scc/euhf/euhfcrules.htm
>    It  appears that in this contest you are allowed to use the cluster 
and 
>  RBN/Skimmer (I got this from S57AW the Organiser).
>    It  would seem that all Contest Clubs should really show this to read 
SO 
>  assisted. Perhaps there should now be a truly international standard 
>  that all contests sign up too.
> 73 Clive GM3POI
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