I would respectfully suggest that anybody who thinks a medium or small-sized
station can attain a respectable score unassisted just by spinning the dial
hasn't actually done so in the last few years. The advantage of operating
assisted and using point-and-shoot over spinning the dial is easily a million
points if not two. When Europe opens to the east coast on 20, and later on 15
and 10, I've picked off Qs, and especially Mults, faster than if I were to find
a spot and start CQing. It's even more apparent to JA and South America in the
late afternoon. I'd say 85 to 90% of the spots are accurate meaning I can
attain a rate of 60-100/hr when condx are good, if I can't get a good, long run
going.
In 2015 it's crazy to expect a medium-sized station to spin the knob and
operate unassisted if that station wants to have a shot at 2M or 3M. Maybe
once, but not any longer.
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GO FRC!
Peter, W2IRT
www.facebook.com/W2IRT
-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Radio
K0HB
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 4:14 PM
To: V. Sidarau
Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Self-spotting in-debth
Vlad, as you point out, this is an awesome feature! I'm in favor.
__73, de Hans, K0HB
"Just a Boy and His Radio"™
On Thursday, Oct 29, 2015 at 15:09, V. Sidarau <vs.lists@gmail.com>, wrote:
The useless dead-fed bandmap may force people to forget watching spots and
learn how to rotate a tuning dial... That's also not bad.
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