[CQ-Contest] Analysis on ASSISTED advantage vs UNASSISTED

[Tonno Vahk]

Well, I guess you believe as well as I do that those scores are really
apples and oranges as Barry pointed out.

If we put those top class SO guys with their setups into assisted classes
the scores would be of different nature.

After all it's pure logic - they don't lose anything by having packet. If
they don't need it they just don't watch it, so they can only gain:)

So it really depends on the location and contest how much of an advantage
you get but is is usually noticeable.

Those 100 more mults was not overestimation. There were many stations that
were spotted tens of times even. SO-s from carribean, even EU stations that
I just did not stumble on as they were not on the bands I was with my 2nd
radio.

Actually it seems to me that incorporating 3rd radio and running SO3R would
seem quite a reasonable thing to do. While 1 is CQing, the other is actively
scrolling 2nd band, then 3rd radio could be used to monitor a 3rd band for
propagation or alike...

73
tonno
es5tv


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <K3BU at aol.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Analysis on ASSISTED advantage vs UNASSISTED


> 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
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