Congrats John... I've got a question... Based upon the scores you shared.... Is running "Assisted" really helping the operators improve their scores? The single op non-assisted are having higher scor
SO outperforms SOA? There is no way these scores are comparing apples to apples. Why? All things being equal, spotting assistance must result in higher scores simply because the risk of missing a mul
Hello Mark, I understand your point. In fact, I also enjoy entering SO without any assistance very much. After many years of entering assisted, I would say that I enjoy it even more than when using D
Hi Martin: We will continue to strongly disagree about what is good for our sport and our hobby! One I think we both love. :-) Your arguments support eliminating power categories and single operator
I totally agree with Mark, KD4D and I am a SOA operator and I want to keep the SO & SOA categories separate. Why would anyone care to combine them after the nearly 30 years we've managed to keep them
Maybe the un assisted ops are just better operators in the first place, and do not need help to make bigger scores? Is there records of great ops that never used assistance, and then started using it
There is one example I am familiar with where you can compare SO to SOA. Go to http://www.cqww.com/searchbycall.htm?cl=k5zd and look at the last 5 years of CW results. Same station. Same op. Same lev
Can you do the same thing but for SSB? To remove the auto spotting of the RBN's and Skimmers. Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 5/24/2
Again, personal preferences first. You will be able to keep entering contests in the way you want, even if categories are merged. No one will force to point and click for Qs. It makes sense to change
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 19:18:35 +0200
So please simply say now that you are for abolishing power categories, too. Otherwise your argument makes no sense. And we all know that is even more difficult to prove power cheating - so with your
Hi Christian, I depends on how you look at it. According to you, we cannot eliminate one way of cheating because there are others... Does that make sense to you?? too. Otherwise your argument makes n
And why not be creative enough....to counter ghost operators by merging Multi categoriea with Single Op? One Happy Contest Family where we have used all available metods to reduce cheating possibilit
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 20:34:01 +0200
According to you, we cannot eliminate one way of cheating because there are others... Does that make sense to you?? Well, you try to escape the answer knowing that power cheating of course has a much
LU5DX: "You will be able to keep entering contests in the way you want..." President Obama: "You will be able to keep the health insurance you now have..." LU5DX: "....even if the categories are merg
So the only solution to eliminate cheating is to merge the categories? Or it's presumed that it's too hard to "adjudicate" the results without merging the categories? There are no other reasons to me
I'm curious as to why the assisted operators want to eliminate the unassisted category and for that matter why their opinion matters? Is there any answer to the question above? Obviously, by definiti
Actually not. I'm not trying to escape the answer. Power cheating if of a total different nature and it is a matter of infrastructure to prove that someone is cheating. In the case of unclaimed assis
Ron, what is being described as a "merger" or a "convergence" is neither of those things. The goal described by Randy, Martin, and others is to DELETE the "not assisted" category. Contesters who have
"Bartender, I'd like one of whatever Martin is drinking, only make it just half that strong." Certainly there is a radical solution, that will actually eliminate the possibility of unclaimed assistan
Author: Bob Kupps via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 01:38:07 +0000 (UTC)
Hi well all I have to add is that I hope that there will always be as many categories of competition as possible. I applaud the efforts of the WWROF and others for keeping radiosport competition as f