Last year, for an article I was writing, I polled several major contest
officials individually as to whether accessing the RBN simply to see how
your own callsign is propagating during a contest would constitute
assistance.
They 100% agreed that the act of accessing any RBN information during a
contest constituted assistance.
Take that as you will - 73 jeff wk6i
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 3:07 PM, John Geiger <af5cc2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since we have been talking about contest DQs and the spirit of the rules
> and such, here is something which I have wondered about. Suppose I am
> operating in a SSB contest, and I set up DX Summit to only show me CW
> spots, because I am looking for a certain DXpedition (like 3C1L) or want to
> look for new band or CW countries since I am not making a serious effort in
> the contest.
>
> Would this put me in the assisted category? I am not getting spots about
> any particular station in general, at least not on stations in the SSB
> contest. I might, however get some information about which bands are open
> to where.
>
> Or suppose I set up the cluster to only show WARC bands activity?
>
> 73 John AF5CC
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