> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Eric Hilding
> Sent: December 5, 2006 20:53
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Non-Mult Assistance ???
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "kr2q@optonline.net"
> FINALLY.....
> As I hope is becoming obvious, the REAL SOLUTION is to never
> offer "over the air" assistance because you are putting the
> "other guy" in ethical trouble....geniune dilemma: ignore it
> and possibly lose the mult (bad) or USE it and have to CHANGE
> CATEGORIES to assisted/unlimited
> ---------------------------
>
> OK...what about these scenarios that don't directly involve
> the "Mult" issue:
>
> 1. The de facto standard for signal reports is 5NN. During
> the 160m contest, I sent one person 595 because his signal
> sounded like crap. Does this mean I was providing
> "assistance" alerting him to a problem with his transmitter
> (or most likely amplifier)?
>
> 2. If someone's audio sounds like crap during a Phone
> contest and I tell them, am I also providing "assistance"
> that could improve that person's score if he or she fixes the problem?
>
> 3. If I hear an weak PVRC station repeatedly calling CQ
> during SS with no answers 'cuz he's getting clobbered by a
> loud W5 he can't hear (but I want to be an NCCC "Good Guy"
> and spare him additional agony of unanswered CQ's), if I
> tell him he's getting clobbered by a loud W5, am I providing
> "assistance"?
Interesting. Here's another one.
Rule 2.1 of the ARRL General Rules for Contests Below 30MHz states:
Single Operator: One person performs all the transmitting,
receiving, and logging functions as well as equipment and antenna
adjustments.
If you are operating in the contest and your next-door neighbour drops by
and tells you that one of your wires had let go on one end but he slung it
back up for you, I guess he's now a part of your Multi-Op team.
73 -- Paul VO1HE
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