[VHFcontesting] VUAC Survey input/ debate

[Paul Decker]

Hi, 



I'm confused.  If I'm working the contest as "unassisted" and someone else chooses to spot me without me asking them or otherwise interacting with them, I suddenly become classified as "assisted"? 



I don't have much for a station, in many cases I can hear a big gun station but they can't hear me.  I usually spot them so that others who are more fortunate can work them if they choose.  In this case, I am simply an swl who is reporting I hear a distant station.  Should that station then become assisted? 



Paul Decker (KG7HF) 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "frank bechdoldt" <k3uhf at hotmail.com> 
To: vhfcontesting at contesting.com 
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:25:33 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [VHFcontesting] VUAC Survey input/ debate 


I have reports of : 

  

During the contest there were non contestants (formally assisted) spotting non assisted people on some of the web pages.  This was not to help the non assisted people, but to help the formally assisted people get more QSOS and contacts and ultimately QSL cards for working these individuals. In the last contest Non assisted qso numbers doubled while the number of registered participants dropped because of the loss of  an category. 

  

The ARRL can not police the web pages.  Unassisted people benefit from the activity of others no matter how they communicate or spot  with each other.  The current rules has their head in the sand on this issue. The only fair way to do it is to acknowledge that all sorts of assistance exists and other than exchanging actual QSO information all classes are allowed to spot or be spotted.  That or police the web pages and all spotted call signs are registered and sent to the ARRL to ensure they are listed as assisted.  A major scandal like this happened one with a CQ HF contest where someone documented unassisted people were being spotted and the QSO times matched the spots. Why expose an ARRL contest to that? 

  

k3uhf 
                                                
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