[WriteLog] Help with Spotting Please

[Jerry Bliss]

Gary, I beg to differ with your interpretation of the "no spotting" rule in
NAQP (see your email, below).

You quoted the part of the rules which applies to Single Op (SO) stations.
Multi-Op stations
are permitted to use spots.   I would point out that Single Ops who USE
spots should be
entered as a Multi-Op.  The contest adjudicators assure me that if you
report in your cabrillo file
that you are Single-Op, Assisted,  then they will redesignate your NAQP
entry as Multi-Op.

Now having said all that and to put a fine point on it,  the rule does not
mean that a Single-Op entry
is prohibited from sending out spots;  rather that the Single-Op is
prohibited from USING SPOTS to
find stations for his own use.  As a mater of fact, the SO might be
motivated to spot in order to assist
a Multi-Op station (say one in his club).  So it becomes a mater of "word of
honor" that the SO station
reports the correct entry category.

As always,  Gary, TNX for your unselfish efforts to assist here on this
reflector.

de Jerry, k6iii

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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:25:22 -0900
From: "Gary AL9A" <al9a at mtaonline.net>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Help with Spotting Please


Spotting should not be a problem in NAQP contests.  According to the contest
rules, Section 5. a) ii) "Access to spotting information obtained directly
or indirectly from any source other than the station operator, such as from
other stations or automated tools, is prohibited, except as follows:
Technological methods of copying the information in the contest exchange are
permitted as long as they are entirely contained within the station."

I interpret that to mean no use of packet or internet spotting clusters,
such as VE7CC, is allowed.