[CQ-Contest] Analysis on ASSISTED advantage vs UNASSISTED

[Tonno Vahk]

It is often said that using packet does not help much and Assisted results
are usually lower than unassisted. Well, just to get some numbers I did a
little analysis.

I had 2800 QSOs and 950 mults in WPX SSB SOAB unassisted. I was wondering
how many more mults I would have worked with packet. David was kind to let
me have his nice database of all the nearly 30 000 spots from that weekend.

I found that there were good spots of about 350 prefixes that I did not
work. Looking at them I could clearly say that I could have worked at 100 of
them with ease had I known their frequency and were to turn the antenna.
With SO2R you don't just find all of them even if you tune across them.

So actually I think that packet would have let me improve my score by 1 mio
from 6,3 mio to 7,3 mio and that is a hell of a difference, probably would
have guaranteed 1st place in EU.

And I guess this holds true in most of the contests...

73
Tonno
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