Re: AERC rules and radios

[Truman Prevatt <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

By using radios a rider can collect valuable intelligence on the other riders
from observers stationed along the course. .  Which this could be data could be
attained by talking to the crew at vet checks, the radio link provides it much
more timely.  I would agree that this would be a definite advantage and would
asist and cue the rider

CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com wrote:

>
> When you say the word "prompt" I envision someone from backstage verbally
> telling someone onstage what to do.  That is communication, and that is what
> can be done with radios.  My Webster suggests such things under the transitive
> verb "prompt" as "to move to action," "to assist," and "cue."  Although radios
> can certainly be used for other things, those things can quite definitely be
> done by radio communication, and hence would clearly be a violation of rule
> 6(k).
>
> Heidi Smith, DVM

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