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Re: [CQ-Contest] Rules document change

To: N4ZR <n4zr@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Rules document change
From: John Geiger <af5cc2@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:43:46 -0600
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I have to agree with this question-why can't we do single op unlimited for
a single band?  Doesn't seem like using assistance for just a single band
would violate any ethics or fairness for the contest.

73 John AF5CC

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 12:59 PM N4ZR <n4zr@comcast.net> wrote:

> Paul, N1SFE, the Contest Manager at ARRL, just sent me an e-mail, not
> copied to the reflector, saying that he had fixed the rules to make it
> clear that single band entries cannot be assisted.  I'm glad he did it,
> but the question is, why the limitation in the first place?  I wonder if
> it is just an artifact from the days when "assistance = sin" in the eyes
> of some.
>
> By the way, I notice that Assisted ops won the US/VE Single Op HP and LP
> categories outright last year.
>
> --
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