The common definition of Assistance refers to single operators who use
cluster spots, run their own skimmers or get some kind of outside help to find
stations. On CW and RTTY the spots are now gathered by skimmer robots
which efficiently skim up almost everything. On phone they are generated
manually by humans so there are fewer spots, but all the big running stations
and other significant stations get spotted.
This Assistance is just one side of the coin, however. The other side is
the running stations who get spotted. They count on being spotted to
generate those huge runs and scores and if they claim to be Unassisted they
are
not being honest. These operators are also Assisted.
The only truly Unassisted stations are those single operators doing only
traditional S&P. These are often small operations and certainly do not
include the big, famous winning stations that dominate the competitions.
Given these definitions, the majority of single operator stations are
Assisted which is why the two categories are converging, like it or not, and
why Unassisted should be eliminated
73,
Ken, AB1J
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