[VHFcontesting] [Moon-net] Changes in the 2005 ARRL International EME Competition

Lee Scott - AA1YN aa1yn at aa1yn.com
Wed Jul 27 16:19:31 EDT 2005


At 12:31 PM 7/27/2005 -0700, Kenneth E. Harker wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:59:35AM -0700, kr7o at vhfdx.com wrote:
> > Does this over rule the GCR 3.10 "non-amateur means" rule?
>
>No.
>
>The ARRL General Contest Rules 3.10 is:
>
>"3.10.The use of non-Amateur Radio means of communication (for example,
>Internet or telephone) to solicit a contact (or contacts) during the
>contest period is not permitted."
>
>It prohibits self-spotting, calling people on the phone to ask them to
>work you, etc.  An "Assisted" category means that the station can
>use packet spots (and of course can spot other stations) during its
>operation.  It does not mean that it can spot itself.
>
>
> > At 10:27 AM 7/26/2005 -0400, Henderson, Dan N1ND wrote:
> > >At it's July meeting, the Program and Services Committee of the ARRL
> > >Board of Directors approved a change in the rules for the ARRL
> > >International EME Competition.  This new rule separates Single Operator
> > >entries into Unassisted or Assisted entries and applies to all of the
> > >former Single Operator categories:
> > >
> >
> > 73, Robert KR7O/YB2ARO, DM07ba/OI52ee  (ex.  N7STU)
> > kr7o at vhfdx.com
> >

 From the mouth of the League:

"The use of spotting assistance or nets (operating arrangements involving 
other individuals, DX-alerting nets, packet, etc) is permitted."

This overrides the general rules and the VHF rules and only pertains to the 
EME contest. Individual contest rules always override the more general 
rules.  This is to allow nets such as PingJockey in real time.  That was 
it's original intent.



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