[CQ-Contest] SO vs. SOA Scores

[Richard DiDonna NN3W]

Didn't we cover this ground last month?

How miniscule are we going to be when it comes to assistance?

A)  Your Alpha 87 blows up and the station owner helps you to swap out the 
blown linear with the backup AL-1200?

B)  You're a computer nitwit and you notice that CT no longer talks to your 
FT-1000.  The station owner suggests you hit control-alt-delete and rerun 
CT?

C)   You've run two nights without sleep and in your semi-delirium, you're 
joking around with the owner late on Sunday morning.  You comment to him 
that your 10 meter run stinks and has not done well at all, whereupon the 
owner says, "Ya know, your EU rate might be better if the 10 meter 
monobander wasn't on JA"?

D)  You're running the 10 meter contest late at night in your 
the-shades-are-all-pulled-down shack, when the station owner comes in and 
says "I can see the northern lights up on the horizon.  Nice aurora...."

Are we really going to parse hairs that much?

73 Rich NN3W

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry" <w2up at mindspring.com>
To: "Richard L. King" <k5na at ecpi.com>
Cc: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] SO vs. SOA Scores


> The wife bringing the sandwich was a bit of hyperbole, but the guest
> op/pit crew scenario wasn't.
> It's one thing to have a meal delivered.  It's another to have the
> resident station engineer swap out parts, fix a rotor, etc.
>
> As has been said many times before, there is no way to equalize the
> competition and there never will be (unless the contest is run on Morse
> Runner.)
>
> 73,
> Barry
>
> Richard L. King wrote:
>> Are you saying that using packet is the same thing as your wife
>> bringing you a sandwich.
>>
>> Sorry, I just don't see that.
>>
>> The trouble is that this subject can be nitpicked to death. There are
>> just too many "help" scenarios that can be thought up and you can't
>> logically group them into the "using packet" class, whatever name it
>> goes by. Using packet is very different and really helps my score,
>> while a sandwich does nothing for my score.
>>
>> Though I sometimes feel there are too many categories these days, if
>> it encourages more activity I am OK with it.
>>
>> And I don't think anything anyone says here will cause the "assisted"
>> and "unassisted" categories to be combined. Nor will it create rules
>> saying a single-op has to operate from a sealed room.
>>
>> Happy holidays.
>>
>> 73, Richard - K5NA
>>
>> At 11:39 12/21/2006, Barry wrote:
>>
>>> The definition of Assisted only refers to using a spotting network.
>>> However, I see no difference between SOA and SO/guest op or an SO with a
>>> "pit crew."  True single op is single op.  Single op with helpers to
>>> prepare meals, fix equipment problems, etc., is not single op, IMO.
>>> 73,
>>> Barry
>>>
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>>>
>>> Barry Kutner, W2UP
>>> Newtown, PA
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