I think you’re underestimating the ability of people to multitask. Contesting
activities are not binary. You can call CQ and look at a monitor at the same
time…..
73 Rich NN3W
> On Jul 3, 2023, at 3:57 PM, K9MA <k9ma@sdellington.us> wrote:
>
> On 7/2/2023 8:42 AM, kq2m@kq2m.com wrote:
>> Scoreboards provide a multitude of information and different ops use that
>> info in different ways to different effects. The score at any given point
>> basically tells you who is ahead or behind in aggregate; it is a snapshot of
>> what has already happened and on what bands the op made it happen; however,
>> watching for CHANGES in the band by band breakdown tells you where those
>> changes in score are happening NOW which is very valuable info if the op
>> knows how to use that effectively, and clearly not the same thing as DX
>> Cluster spots which give away the freq and time of the spotted stations.
>
> I have to wonder how productive watching scoreboards for such changes really
> would be. Perhaps that time would be better spent calling CQ or searching.
>
> 73,
>
> Scott K9MA
>
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>
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