Anyone care to expound on why some contests have SO-Assisted, whilst
others lump all assisted operations into Multi Op?
Why do I ask? As background, I gave a presentation concerning results
of our 160 Meter effort from W8LRC as M/S at a meeting on Saturday, Dec
11. As part of this presentation I showed the assembled multitude some
of the info which can be found on the reverse beacon network, on the
live propagation web pages, and on dx-clusters. (Thanks to members of
the Mad River Radio Club and the Minnesota Wireless Association for
telling me where to go to find such useful info.)
After the presentation a couple ops wanted to fire up the station on 10
meters for the ARRL 10 meter contest, so we looked at the propagation
charts, found that there were a few openings to the west coast, and made
a few contacts. Only one op actually operated, so we figured on
submitting a SO-Assisted log. Were we surprised! With just one op plus
the on line help we found he was in the M/S category. No big deal, but
this generated the above question.
It seems to me that SO-Assisted is so common it should be all-inclusive,
especially for ARRL contests, particularly since there's reference to
SO-Assisted in the general rules for HF contests. (Lest I be considered
un-knowledgeable about these rules, I do realize that the over arching
rule says that specific rules for contests supersede the general rules
if there is a conflict.)
Private comments are solicited. Thanks in advance.
Tnx es 73 de n8xx Hg
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