My .02 Living in the Shadow of the Frankford Radio Club, and being accustomed
to the 2 meter Dx announcement system in place in the 70's and then the Packet
Cluster ( Had a 2 meter and 450 MHZ pacclus At W3EA ) We also had a automated
female voice announcing DX over 2 meter FM derived from packet spots. So it
did not take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out the station monitoring Packet or
2 Meter FM by showing up in the Packet Pile up's. Today in age with RBN and
world wide telnet Cw Skimmer and SDR radios with pan adaptors and 24"
Monitors able to visually scan the entire band at one glance, have put tools
for both the SO and the SOA creating a difficult task to observe a pattern
of cheating. Cheating. you could write a book and or have at least a full
week of Dr. Phil's Shows dedicated to there low self esteem excuses. But IMHO
the SO - HP LP or QRP should not be diluted by by lifting the assisted
category. There is the embrace technology cro
wd and there is the Purest who see Single Operator as the Man ( or women)
against the spectrum . So it becomes a simple solution with the addition
of assisted a category. Wayne W3EA
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