I've tried it.
Point.
Click.
Fie Nigh Foe.
Difficult indeed.
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 08:56 Jukka Klemola <jpklemola@gmail.com> wrote:
> Assisted is easy only to such guys who have not tried assisted.
>
> Assisted is much more difficult than classic.
> Very Much.
>
>
> 73,
> Jukka OH6LI
>
> 2016-11-29 3:13 GMT+02:00 Bill via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>:
>
> > Assisted is not that easy for a competitive station. While you are
> > running on 14.030, you must time your CQs and replies to guys calling
> > you to the
> > guy who's CQing on 21025. You have to time your calls to the station on
> > 21025, make the Q and send the exchange very quickly so you don't loose
> > your
> > run freq. it can be a challenge, even for big stations. It's true for
> CW
> > and SSB and just about all contests.
> >
> > Bill K4XS/KH7XS
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 11/29/2016 12:37:16 A.M. Coordinated Universal Ti,
> > artboyars@gmail.com writes:
> >
> > I've complained here repeatedly (ad nauseam, you might say) about how
> > "assisted" has changed single op. This year in SS, both CW and SSB, I
> > experienced it clearly. Several times I would find a nice juicy
> > multiplier
> > early in his operation, and I'd jump into the pile with my little
> signal.
> > If I got beaten more than twice, it was all over. The "spot" would go
> out,
> > all the HP point-and-clickers would jump in, and the pileup would become
> > unmanageable. (A couple of times the rare mult CQer did hang in long
> > enough
> > for me to come back 20 or 30 minutes later and make a QSO.)
> >
> > The same effect happens with "new" non-mult QSOs, but I guess I don't
> > notice so much when I get packet-ed out of my umpteenth OH or SCV as
> when
> > I
> > miss the NL or SB or EWA that I found giving out number 4.
> >
> > Now, maybe you find "assisted" more fun than classic single op. That's
> OK,
> > and having that category reported in the Results is OK, too. But PLEASE
> > don't think that the two categories should be merged. I do not know
> what
> > special skills are needed for "assisted", but they sure are nothing like
> > the skills I developed for single op, especially Little Pistol. (Having
> > the loudest signal in the pileup may be a worthy achievement, but I
> would
> > not call it an operating skill.)
> >
> > 73, Art K3KU
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