[CQ-Contest] Consider This

[Bob Naumann - N5NJ]

It IS an advantage - but only to those who can do it well!   There is no
need for any further analysis.

Heck, I run SO2R from home with my TH3jr at 15' and my vertical.  It's cool,
but I'm not going to win anything from here so, it would be meaningless in
the summary.

SO2R requires more skill - not just more equipment.

If all that was required was more equipment, I could stack up six rigs and
guarantee an SS win - right?

Wrong!

I find myself agreeing with KQ2M on this.

N5NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: <W0uo at cs.com>
To: <kr6x at kr6x.com>; <CQ-CONTEST at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Consider This


> KR6X,
>
> With all due respect, lets look at what I said:
>
> The quickest way to expose {an advantage, or lack thereof}, is to include
it
> in contest reporting. It should be obvious whether such an advantage
exists
> within just a few months.
> >
> > If we want to go further in trying to establish a cause and effect
between
> SO2R and scores we could design an experiment.  After one year run on two
> major contest with current rules, change the rules for the subsequent year
> to require stations to stay on one band for just three minutes.  (If SO2R
is
> the cause of an advantage}, one would expect the advantage to either be
> substantially decreased or disappear in the second year.
> >
> > Sound like a fair test?
>
>     Now, lets state two hypothesis.  H0:  SO2R is not a significant
advantage
> in contesting.  H1:  SO2R is a significant advantage in contesting.
Testing
> these hypotheses requires an experimental design.  The simplest design,
but
> not the only one and maybe not the best, is to run two contests, one with
> current rules, one with a 3 minute band change limit for both SO1R and
SO2R.
>     I could, but will not here, state a decision rule.  It should be easy
for
> anyone with a background in statistics.  Suffice it to say, if  factors
other
> than SO2R are more significant, it will be born out in the measurements.
>     There is no other way to end this argument.  Them that have want to
keep
> it that way, them that do not want to (or cannot) invest the extra $3,000
or
> so that it takes to SO2R right want it changed.
>     It may be that, like SO Assisted, SO2R is not a significant advantage.
> Its time we found out.
>
> 73 de Jim
> W0UO/5
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