Rule: "The use of the following technologies cannot be used for contest QSO. D-PLUS DV Dongle HotSpot Digital/Analog Gateways DV Adapters"
A station jumped me on a reflector asking me to one-touch him back for a contest QSO. Was the reflector (i.e., dplus) used to make the QSO? I would argue yes because there is no way otherwise that a contest QSO could have occured at that time on that frequency (it did not, btw). An operator making QSO's this way rather than by random calling has a significant advantage. ICOM, next year please clarify if this rule means no use of those technologies in any way, or if it's okay to solicit a QSO just so long as callsign routing (one-touch reply) is then used to actually complete the QSO. 73 -- John
