It might be helpful if, when considering changing the rule, the rule-makers
considered what it is that they're trying to accomplish with the recordings.
The current rule states that a recording must capture the TX and RX audio _as
received by the operator_ (emphasis added).
Under certain conditions / a certain style of SO2R operating, the operator
won't necessarily hear their TX audio; they may be sending on one radio while
listening to the other with both ears. Under the current rule, the TX audio
will therefore not always be present in the recording.
The current rule has the nice feature of only requiring splitting the
SO2R-audio-to-headphones line to connect a recorder. Relatively easy.
An alternative rule would be to require a recording of the RX/TX audio from
each radio. This has the advantage of making it clear what is being heard/sent
on each radio through the contest, but it isn't necessarily indicative of what
the operator is hearing. This should also be relatively easy to accomplish,
although the details may vary somewhat in different stations, and you're
probably going to need an extra recorder.
It sounds like Steve's suggesting that there could be a rule change saying that
you need a recording containing both what the operator hears, and the TX audio
even when not heard by the operator. If I'm not mistaken, that will require
some new audio switching hardware/software to facilitate the recording, or some
operators will be obliged to change their preferred style of audio-switching.
The former doesn't seem appropriate, at least not without a significant amount
of advance warning; and the latter seems to inappropriately infringe on choice
of operating strategy.
If the committee believes that they need recordings of what the operator hears
and TX audio, it'd be much simpler (albeit more cumbersome) to accept three
recordings from an SO2R entrant: headphone audio, radio 1 (with monitor)
audio, and radio 2 (with monitor) audio.
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Michael Adams | mda@n1en.org
-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jorge
Diez - CX6VM
Sent: Wednesday, 28 June, 2017 13:18
To: n2ic@arrl.net
Cc: kr2q@optimum.net; Bob Naumann <w5ov@w5ov.com>; cq Contest
<cq-contest@contesting.com>; w4pa >> Scott Robbins <w4pa@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Attention CQWW SO2R Competitors
Steve
actually the transmitted signal must be present on the recording
*C. Audio Recordings:* Any single operator entrant (see V.A.1) competing for a
top three finish at the (a) World, (b) Continent, or (c) USA levels, must
record the transmitted and received audio as heard by the operator for the
duration of the contest operation.
So if will be a change would be nice to know about that, many people working on
this, big companies like Elecfart are working on a firmware to improve that and
make it easy for the simple operator to do the recording that cqww cc ask for
73,
Jorge
CX6VM/CW5W
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