[CQ-Contest] Analysis on ASSISTED advantage vs UNASSISTED

[Tonno Vahk]

It might seem to you so but actually the rate is slow in WPX, rarely over
110-120 per hour. That allows you to use 2nd radio very efficiently almost
not losing anything on the 1st radio.

I estimate that I probably lost about 5-10 QSOs on the 1st radio for working
those 470 QSOs on second radio in WPX.

73
tonno
es5tv
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "W5PR" <W5PR at swbell.net>
To: "Tonno Vahk" <tonno.vahk at mail.ee>; <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Analysis on ASSISTED advantage vs UNASSISTED


> 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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