You are right. Point and click. Going through the steps is simple.
But you are wrong in that winning in the assisted format is a different
story. The other guy can go the the basic steps just as well as you can.
And he may have the same telnet feed info as you. So differences in
execution, band selection and timing are the details where the devil
resides.
73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: Radio K0HB
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 9:33 AM
To: CQ-Contest ; Jukka Klemola
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Packet killed single Op
I've tried it.
Point.
Click.
Fie Nigh Foe.
Difficult indeed.
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 08:56 Jukka Klemola <jpklemola@gmail.com> wrote:
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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