[VHFcontesting] Re: [NLRS] Jan VHF SS Rover plan K0PG K9ILT (long)

[John P. Toscano]

Bob N7CZ - DN47im wrote:
 
> I have not heard of the "family" type operation in the contest.
> I don't see it in the rules either.

It is in the ARRL General Rules for All ARRL Contests, paragraph 3.5,
which can be found on the web at:
  http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/rules-all.html

I will quote it here:

"3.5. A transmitter used to contact one or more stations may not be
subsequently used under any other call during the contest period,
except for family stations where more than one call has been issued,
and then only if the second call sign is used by a different
operator. (The intent of this rule is to accommodate family members
who must share a rig, and to prohibit manufactured or artificial
contacts.)"

The idea is that one radio can be shared by two or more family
members, but you can't, for example, carry an Icom IC-T81A handheld
with you as a rover, drive up to the homes of a dozen different
hams in a dozen different grids, and loan it to each of them long
enough to earn a 1.2 GHz band contact with it (as an admittedly
extreme example of the artificial contacts mentioned in the passage
quoted above).

73 de W0JT