wrote

If you work a mult you didn't find with your own
ears you're using assistance.

Truely I could argue that any aid in your station is "assistance" --- but not
OUTSIDE assistance. Dupe sheets and electric pencil sharpeners are "assistance"
at some stations!

If you can harness technology to gain some advantage in the radiosport game, so
long as that technology is in YOUR station and under YOUR control, then more
power to you. Only if that assistance originates at ANOTHER station as the
result of efforts of other radiomen (ie., cluster spots), then your log should
no longer qualify as an SO entry.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

73, de Hans, K0HB