All this discussion is missing the what I believe the intention of the rule
to be which is to prevent someone "feeding calls", such as reading a page
(these days a screen) from the callbook, or the club roster, or all the
people they know to their buddy in SS or other to help that guy's score.
The other reason is to prevent someone from operating with another call
during their off-time and then switching calls to work a mult that might
call in etc. Clearly, these behaviors raise ethical questions. Perhaps it
may be necessary to spell out the circumstances the rule is really meant to
address instead of a general statement that inclusively rules out something
that may be positive or at least benign.
Running 2 different calls as the good doctor did in the 160 test only serves
to increase activity and fun - what's the harm with this ? I do not think
that alternating calls (as some have indicated they've done) throughout the
contest is quite the same thing and should be discouraged. The
multi-station single operator thing (ala K8MR) in SS seems to cause no one
any harm and may be fun for those that do it.
For VHF, I think the rule should limit the station to one signal per band
(exclusive of packet) not as it appears the rules are now written. Again,
permitting single ops to, for example, CQ on multiple bands at once in the
VHF test only increases activity and the fun the operator will have. I
don't see how this is unfair to anyone or needs to be controlled.
73,
Bob N5NJ
Robert E. Naumann
N5NJ@worldnet.att.net
also V26RN, ex KR2J, W6V, WA2OVE
Plano, TX USA
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