Try doing this with single-band scores in CQWW and see if you get the same
answer Jamie. Mults become relatively much more important when you are
constrained by choice of category to a much smaller pool of them. A handful
more due to Cluster assistance can make a very significant difference.
Don G3XTT
On 12/18/06, Jamie Dupree NS3T <ns3t@arrl.net> wrote:
>
> It is often said that Assisted operators will score better than their
> un-assisted competitors if we had one single-op category in contesting.
>
> So...let's look at the scores from the ARRL DX CW and SSB contests of
> the past three years and see what it shows. (All these numbers were
> crunched
> from the ARRL contest results web site.)
>
> What I did was take the top scores from assisted and unassisted and
> simply combine them into a top 20. Pretty simple. What does it show?
> Other than in HP CW, the assisted operators score higher and dominate
> the top 20 combined standings.
>
> ARRL SSB 06 HP - highest assisted finish was 14th - 5 assisted in top 20
>
> ARRL SSB 05 HP - highest assisted finish was 6th - - 7 assisted in top 20
>
> ARRL SSB 04 HP - highest assisted finish was 6th - 6 assisted in top 20
> -
> ARRL SSB 06 LP - highest assisted finish was 5th - 5 assisted in top 20
>
> ARRL SSB 05 LP - highest assisted finish was 4th - 2 assisted in top 20
>
> ARRL SSB 04 LP - highest assisted finish was 3rd - 2 assisted in top 20
> -
>
> ARRL CW 06 HP - highest assisted finish was 1st - 7 assisted in top 20
>
> ARRL CW 05 HP - highest assisted finish was 1st - 6 assisted in top 20
>
> ARRL CW 04 HP - highest assisted finish was 3rd - 7 assisted in top 20
>
> ARRL CW 06 LP - highest assisted finish was 11th - 3 assisted in top 20
>
> ARRL CW 05 LP - highest assisted finish was 16th - 1 assisted in top 20
>
> ARRL CW 04 LP - highest assisted finish was 18th - 2 assisted in top 20
>
>
> I like to bet on the horses - and after seeing this breakdown, I'd be
> happy
> to wager my money on the assisted guys in ARRL DX if there was one
> single-op category.
>
> 73 Jamie NS3T
>
>
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