[VHFcontesting] Using Assistance to make fake contacts...

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

One important piece of information that spotting assistance  provides from 
knowing who is on the air (and from that, from where), is  knowing where to 
point your antenna.
 
In the case of the EME contest, there is exactly one very well known  
direction to point one's antenna: at the moon.
 
So it would seem that spotting assistance should be less important in the  
EME contest than in most others.
 
 
73  -  Jim  K8MR
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/15/2009 11:31:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
k5qe at sabinenet.com writes:


I  ask again that you PLEASE send a letter to Sean (skutzo at arrl.org) if 
you  are upset about the removal of the Assisted Classes from the EME  
contest.  This is important....FIND THE TIME TO DO THIS!!!  It  is the 
small stations that are being hurt by all this, so if you are a  small 
station op or if you just like to operate with Assistance(I do),  send in 
your email to Sean.  Be sure to ask him to forward it to all  the VUAC 
members.  Thank you....

73 Marshall K5QE

Zack  Widup wrote:

> Part of the reason given for dumping the Assisted  category was the use 
> of the assisting method to actually assist with  the QSO. This would be 
> wrong, obviously; once you start to make the  QSO you shouldn't use any 
> other means of trying to enhance  it.
>
> Not being an EME op, I wonder just how prevalent this  practice is, 
> though?  How many people have done  it?
>
> 73, Zack  W9SZ