You bring up a great point, Ken! I had never thought of it that way, and you
are right. The only way an unassisted station can say he is truly unassisted is
to not be spotted by another operator, or by a robot. I guess one needs to
clarify the rules that unassisted stations cannot run, they must stick with
strictly S&P. Makes sense to me!
73;
Mike
W7VO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 1:24:26 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] All the Assisted ops, where do they all come from?
The common definition of Assistance refers to single operators who use
cluster spots, run their own skimmers or get some kind of outside help to find
stations. On CW and RTTY the spots are now gathered by skimmer robots
which efficiently skim up almost everything. On phone they are generated
manually by humans so there are fewer spots, but all the big running stations
and other significant stations get spotted.
This Assistance is just one side of the coin, however. The other side is
the running stations who get spotted. They count on being spotted to
generate those huge runs and scores and if they claim to be Unassisted they are
not being honest. These operators are also Assisted.
The only truly Unassisted stations are those single operators doing only
traditional S&P. These are often small operations and certainly do not
include the big, famous winning stations that dominate the competitions.
Given these definitions, the majority of single operator stations are
Assisted which is why the two categories are converging, like it or not, and
why Unassisted should be eliminated
73,
Ken, AB1J
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