I cant agree completely, although I think some modifications could be made.
If you allow one guy to use more than one call over a weekend, and he
decides to work only his own club members, you open up a can of worms
regarding stuffing club points. While I dont believe that was the intent
here, I'm sure that's a lot of the reasoning behind these rules.
I also dont agree with allowing single ops more than one signal at a time
for the same reasons that it isnt allowed on HF. During contests, there is
no lack of activity. 6 and 2 meters are always used to schedule contacts
on the other bands and these bands are overcrowded during contests anyway.
We dont need a bunch of blind CQing tearing up those bands.
In addition there is the issue of keeping things manageable for single op
stations. Most dont have the capability to operate more than one band at
once, simultaneously or otherwise, so by allowing others to do it, you up
the ante to compete on that level by a serious amount of money.
73, Ty K3MM
n5nj@worldnet.att.net on 12/12/97 08:40:56 AM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
cc: cac@arrl.org (bcc: Tyler G Stewart/BENN/CEC)
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 1 station, 2 callsigns
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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