[OKDXA] 3D2CR Operation not allowed

[Jeff Martin]

>From DX News:
3D2CR Conway Reef IOTA News 23 October 2021
3D2CR operation by Dominik Grzyb from Conway Reef, September 2021
IOTA Management regrets that it will not be able to accept for IOTA credit
contacts made with the 3D2CR operation from Conway Reef between 18 and 25
September 2021. Dominik has not been able to show that his FT4/FT8 activity
complied with IOTA rule B.3.10 on which clarification was given in a
Management News Item on 10 September. At Dominik's request credit will also
not be given for a small number of contacts made on SSB. Management wishes
to draw IOTA DXpeditioners' attention to its policy of only accepting for
IOTA credit contacts that result from contemporaneous direct initiation by
the operators on both sides of the contact. Automated contacts, i.e.
contacts not initiated and completed personally by both operators at the
time of QSO are not acceptable in a programme founded on an ethos of
recognising personal operating performance and skill.
Team IOTA, 23 October 2021

In other words, Dom was doing automated mode QSOs on FT4/FT8. IOTA does not
allow automated QSOs. Wonder what ARRL position is regarding automated QSOs
counting for DXCC? And how would you know if the op was running in automated
mode? Would automated but operator monitored be OK? It appears several
recent Dxpeditions are using clone software which may have the automated
feature rather than WSJT-X... Are they going to throw all of them out?
Again, how do you know? Seems like a losing effort to me... If the
technology exists it will be used... Any thoughts?

73,
Jeff - K5WE