[CQ-Contest] Analysis on ASSISTED advantage vs UNASSISTED

[W5PR]

I can't imagine that assisted in WPX would do anything but reduce your
score.  You should be running stations so fast that the diversion would cost
you time.  The real strategy (even in a single band entry) is to maximize
QSO points by working other continents, not working more pfx's.

JMHO

Chuck W5PR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tonno Vahk" <tonno.vahk at mail.ee>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:07 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Analysis on ASSISTED advantage vs UNASSISTED


> 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
> ES5TV
>
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