[CQ-Contest] Analysis on ASSISTED advantage vs UNASSISTED

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In a message dated 4/6/04 1:23:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tonno.vahk at mail.ee writes:
>>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.<<

Not the best reasoning or comparisson. You should really look at top few 
stations in both categories. There are quite a few examples where unassisted 
clearly make bigger score than assisted.
As far as "I could have worked xxx more" - you will never work them all. With 
monoband contesting it is easier to compare logs from the similar area. When 
I did that, I could always find the there would bunch of stations that I 
worked and bunch of stations that other station worked. Quite often I would find 
that there was a big multi something and I never heard them during the contest. 
The next step (for single banders and M/M) is to be able to call CQ and at 
the same time tune the band for the new ones. Or go south to D4, EA8, HC8 and 
work the never ending pileup without worrying about spots.

Yuri, K3BU.us