Assisted is easy only to such guys who have not tried assisted.
Assisted is much more difficult than classic.
Very Much.
73,
Jukka OH6LI
2016-11-29 3:13 GMT+02:00 Bill via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>:
> Assisted is not that easy for a competitive station. While you are
> running on 14.030, you must time your CQs and replies to guys calling
> you to the
> guy who's CQing on 21025. You have to time your calls to the station on
> 21025, make the Q and send the exchange very quickly so you don't loose
> your
> run freq. it can be a challenge, even for big stations. It's true for CW
> and SSB and just about all contests.
>
> Bill K4XS/KH7XS
>
>
> In a message dated 11/29/2016 12:37:16 A.M. Coordinated Universal Ti,
> artboyars@gmail.com writes:
>
> I've complained here repeatedly (ad nauseam, you might say) about how
> "assisted" has changed single op. This year in SS, both CW and SSB, I
> experienced it clearly. Several times I would find a nice juicy
> multiplier
> early in his operation, and I'd jump into the pile with my little signal.
> If I got beaten more than twice, it was all over. The "spot" would go out,
> all the HP point-and-clickers would jump in, and the pileup would become
> unmanageable. (A couple of times the rare mult CQer did hang in long
> enough
> for me to come back 20 or 30 minutes later and make a QSO.)
>
> The same effect happens with "new" non-mult QSOs, but I guess I don't
> notice so much when I get packet-ed out of my umpteenth OH or SCV as when
> I
> miss the NL or SB or EWA that I found giving out number 4.
>
> Now, maybe you find "assisted" more fun than classic single op. That's OK,
> and having that category reported in the Results is OK, too. But PLEASE
> don't think that the two categories should be merged. I do not know what
> special skills are needed for "assisted", but they sure are nothing like
> the skills I developed for single op, especially Little Pistol. (Having
> the loudest signal in the pileup may be a worthy achievement, but I would
> not call it an operating skill.)
>
> 73, Art K3KU
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