[CQ-Contest] Another angle on assisted versus "being helped"

[Paul J. Piercey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ken Adams K5KA
> Sent: December 5, 2006 01:56
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Another angle on assisted versus 
> "being helped"
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > You go up to 15 and see it's dead so you come back to 20. You tune 
> > around and hear VY1JA. No. 80.
> >   
> I think the key phrase here is "You tune around ..."
> > Do ya work 'im?
> >   
> You bet. 
> There will always be someone who wants to "help", and the 
> single op can't control that.  They can however, control how 
> they react.
> If you decide to go work the new mult right after the help, 
> then you have decided to accept assistance.
> 
> A big part of getting a sweep in SS is the satisfaction of 
> "earning" it on your own.

So, if you happen to overhear someone tell someone else that VY1JA is on
14265 in the last 10 minutes of the contest and you still need that one for
the sweep, you'll shut your rig off because, even though you may have
eventually found him on your own, you now know *exactly* where he is through
a random comment so it wouldn't feel the same as truly getting it on your
own? You still gotta work him. Ever heard some of J's pileups? Are you sure
you'd get through right away... or within 10 minutes?

Regardless of how you found him, you bust the pileup and you've "earned it".

73 -- Paul VO1HE