If you want to increase the number of participants, then offering an assisted category makes a lot of sense. I live in a HOA. Antenna is hidden in the trees. Fortunately I live above the average terr
I have to wonder how much of a participant change adding this category would actually make. The argument being made is that guys are driven to an assisted operation due to skill or location or shack
Sorry but what does living in a HOA have to do with operating assisted ? It seems to me that that you would have a harder time working someone by clicking on spots as compared to tuning the band and
I can understand that tech advances can really help in making us better scorers. Im not sure that they necessarily make us more skilled. Im about 5 years into contesting more seriously, so Im obvious
Author: AB1J via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:37:05 +0000 (UTC)
Sorry but what does living in a HOA have to do with operating assisted ? It seems to me that that you would have a harder time working someone by clicking on spots as compared to tuning the band and
Author: AB1J via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 14:08:25 +0000 (UTC)
Oops, one error in my response: there's no longer an unassisted category in the WPX. My reply was based on the past when there were both unassisted and assisted. Should have used some other contes
KenSure you're going to do better SOA because you are having spots fed to you. But it's not necessary to do good in a contest. The way I read this thread is the author and some others were saying ope
Ken, I respectfully disagree with you and here's why: In an ASSISTED contest, the first time a mult pops up, you as a tiny HOA stn are competing against the big MM's, the M/2, the M/S and all the HP(