On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 02:29:10AM +0100, Marshall Williams wrote:
>
> The HF world has long ago made its peace with the various propagation
> tools. They have Single-Op non-Assisted and Single-Op Assisted
> categories.
Yep - sounds like a great plan for the VHF contests.
This is very much like categories based on power.
> failure. Internet assistance is a tool used daily by a majority of the
> VHF community. Having to suddenly abandon it during a contest makes no
> sense at all".
Maybe - but you know we have power boat races and sailboat races
they do not need to all be power boat races just because the
technology exists.
> I want rules that are SIMPLE and FAIR. The CQ rules are....the ARRL
> rules are not. I want rules that are non-discriminatory. I want rules
> that promote stations making as many contacts as possible(never mind how
> you found the other guy), which is after all the stated Contest
> Objective, rather than restricting them in all kinds of silly ways. I
> want rules that are friendly to the little stations, not just the big
> established stations in the NE.
Ok.
Then why have any rules at all?
Why have more than one category?
Rules by their nature are designed to restrict and control
an activity.
How is that discriminatory?
What is intresting to me is that in the short time I have been
contesting we have gone from very few categories in most contests
to many many categories in contests. Power categories, many variations
on multi and single op etc.
I guess I see this idea of assistance a bit different.
When I operate single op it is just me tuning the bands and making contacts.
When I operate single op assisted (and I have) it is me and
1000's of my closest friends tuning the bands and helping me
find stations. The activity feels like multi op.
In my mind single op assisted has much more in common with multi op than
with single op. The only diffrence is that you do not have someone
to relieve you or help you with the local operating - so mainly it
lets you get less rest or sleep than other forms of multi op.
--
George Fremin III - K5TR
geoiii@kkn.net
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr
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