[PVRCNC] [PVRC] NAQP Multi-2 Question

[Jim K4QPL]

Personally I find using the M/2 category by a single op just to be able to get around the rules to use spotting and theoretically improving the score to be completely unappealing. I agree with the sponsors that 100 watts, unassisted, back to basics, more or less level playing field, ten hours twice a year in each mode is a damn good contest. 
Let’s don’t muck it up with fake multi ops etc., including fake short names (other than honoring a SK) and let’s all enjoy the NAQ PARTY 🎉. 
See you Saturday!
73,
Jim K4QPL 
Sent from my iPhone

> On Aug 14, 2019, at 12:36 PM, Kennan Low via PVRC <pvrc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> Jim -
> 
> If you are a Single Op and use spotting, your log will be adjudicated like a M/2 log.
> 
> If you walk like a M/2 and quack like a M/2, you are a M/2.    That means Single Ops who use spotting need to act like a M/2 to not lose QSO’s in the log checking process.
> 
> Specifically:
> 
> 1.   If you are set up for it, you can Dual-CQ on two bands at once, but you can’t change to a 3rd band until you have spent 10-minutes on the earliest band you are changing from.   Then you are stuck on that 3rd band for another 10-minutes.
> 
> 2.   If you are a rare Mult like DE, WV or DC and someone asks you to ‘run the bands’, you can only give out 2 QSO’s but can’t go to that 3rd band until one of your first two band timers hit the 10-minute mark
> 
> Unfortunate they don’t add a SOA category but the organizers view NAQP as one of the last great holdouts against the RBN and every time they’ve looked at it, they’ve maintained the existing three categories (including SO QRP)
> 
> At least they’ve made the IMPORTANT rule changes like adding DC as a Mult (couldn’t resist - hahaha)
> 
> Ken KE3X 
> 
> 
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> “Dear PVRC NAQP Multi-two band change rule experts, In observing the band change rule for NAQP of remaining on a band for 10 minutes after the first QSO on it, how would you interpret this to apply to one person using one radio who is operating in the M/2 category? Would you permit yourself an "imaginary" second radio, therefore not counting bouncing back and forth between two bands as a band change, and only counting it when you went to a 3rd band??? -or- Would you simply follow the 10 minute rule, even with only one radio, so that when you changed bands, you had to remain on that band for 10 minutes before QSYing?? Curious minds want to know! 73, Jim  WX3B”
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