Jim, I disagree with your interpretation.
First, Field Day is not a contest, so General contest rules don't apply,
Field Day Rules do.
Second, the only thing that "the Octopus" rules referred to were those
that were trying to use more transmitters than the class that they were
claiming.
The only people that are arguing this are the "bare knuckle brawler"
contesters. Like W2LC said, and I agree, our operation is a low key
event. Last year we even prevented our 3 hardnosed contesters (I'm one)
from operating if there were newbies, VHFers, even unlicensed people
around. It was up to us to mentor them and be their control ops.
Expose the public to Amateur Radio and all that we do. It's paid off in
more students for our license classes and more members for our local club.
Then if things got slow, we'd jump in and operate. The only reason that
we don't want rigs to sit idle isn't for the score but just to have more
people exposed to HF operating.
Last year, we had a teacher from the STEM school that we did an ARISS
contact at, and she had gotten her Tech license but had never been on
the air. We set her down with one of our best mentors and even as
nervous as she was, she was game. An hour later we couldn't pry her out
of the chair, she was having so much fun. THAT'S what Field Day is all
about. I usually get a couple of hams come out and all they want to do
is ask questions about radios, antennas and misc items. They don't even
operate but we try to talk them into it.
I love contesting, but that's not why I participate in Field Day.
Go have some laid back Field Day FUN!
73, Gerry, K8GT
On 09-Jun-16 17:23, Jim Brown wrote:
On Thu,6/9/2016 9:49 AM, w2lc@twcny.rr.com wrote:
"Field Day rules reference the number of transmitters - not the
number of transmitted signals at a given moment. Your transmitter
count is what it is - for say Class 2A using a generator and portable
antennas, many Field Day operations would have a dedicated HF CW
transmitter, and a dedicated HF Phone transmitter. If you add an
additional S & P transmitter, then your Class becomes 3A."
Actually, he is mistaken, that is NOT what the Rules say, and the
Field Day rules do NOT prohibit SO2R. BUT -- section 2.3.1 of General
Rules For All Contests Below 30 MHz includes a band-change limit of
six band changes per clock hour for Multiop, Single Transmitter Class,
which significantly limits what you can do with SO2R.
If you're a single op, traditional SO2R IS clearly permitted by the FD
Rules. The prohibition in paragraph 4 of the FD Rules specifically
addresses two operators with an "octopus."
73, Jim K9YC
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