>
> Comparing SO2R and assisted is not a fair analogy. Packet requires no
> skill,
> involves the assistance of others and makes mult hunting the
equivalent of
> shooting fish in a barrel.
Of course it takes skill, otherwise the assisted ops and all the multi
ops would have many more multipliers than unassisted. It takes lots of
skill to know when to go after spots and when to ignore them, to grab
them in between cq's without losing a run, practice using the second vfo
if your radio is so equipped to tune them in and grab them, etc.
unskilled ops at a m/m miss many spotted mults because they don't know
how to properly grab them. Even worse are ops that are distracted and
let the run rate go down by spending too much time in pileups at the
wrong time in the contest.
David Robbins K1TTT
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