Hi Syl
 Thanks for the clarification.  Hard to believe I was wrong in my 
thinking :-)  73
Tom W7WHY
On 10/20/2014 4:29 AM, VE5ZX wrote:
 
Tom
Just a bit of background
 The idea for the 24-hour category came from an article that Pete & 
Mike wrote more than 10 years ago in 2003 on contesting.com titled 
"The 24-Hour DX Challenge".
http://www.contesting.com/articles/401
and a survey that was taken at the same time
http://www.contesting.com/survey/95
 The ensuring discussions that took take over the intervening 10 years 
also suggested and assumed that the 24-hour DX challenge would allow 
spots as the focus was to encourage more participation in contests and 
allow a participant to do the best they could from their QTH. The idea 
was picked up by CQWW and consequently given the name of a Classic 
class with an 24-hour overlay without spots allowed. The original 
intent as proposed was never 'Just a boy and his radio'
 BTW - Pete - I will join you in the "Classic-As-It-Should-Be category, 
with spotting assistance" during the CQWW CW portion as I am going to 
VE5RI to do a multi-multi in the SSB contest
Syl - VE5ZX
 
 
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