[CQ-Contest] Getscores.org Changes/Improvements...

[Edward]

N2IC's posting is exactly why I disagree with getscores for SOAB
Unassisted.  Also, there is much dialog about K1TTT as an example of a
M/M and what you can gain by using getscores.  I can specifically tell
you how it would affect me.
 
As an SO2R SOAB LP op, I will often monitor K1TTT or K1RX or a few other
M/M that are here in New England as they sit on 15 or 10 and call CQ
without a band opening.  I may be running on 20M at such a rate that I
do not want to reduce rate by truly S & Ping a second band.  So instead
I will monitor 10 or 15 on low volume and listen to one of the M/Ms.  I
am specifically listening to see if I can HEAR who is coming back to
them and how loud they are.  More than once it has been this indication
that has had me abandon a moderate run or start to take the rate drop on
the run frequency to try grab some mults on 10 or 15.
 
That whole strategy consumes my second radio for that period of time.
 
Enter getscores, I can monitor get scores and either see K1TTT start
making 10M Qs at some rate to attract my attention while I slowly grab
some S & P mults on 15 (while running on 20M).  All of a sudden I am
SO3R and didn't have to buy another radio (but this isn't
assisted??????). 
 
It is a valid point that with without band breakdown I would not be able
to tell if a station like K1TTT is on 10M making Qs, however I believe I
would be able to tell if K1BX or W3LL or N5AW (examples of top low power
competitiors) found an opening with their summary score only.  There is
no way that any of the top low power competitors can double my rate on
20M to pull away from me greatly during the scenario suggested.  The
only way would be that I am missing mult rich 10M and 15M S & P or run.
Its not rocket science.
 
The other situation suggested of a true competitor actually monitoring
getscores but not connecting and contributing at the same time, is just
about the worst example of unsportsmanship I can think of.  How the
person in Steve's example could not only claim unassisted but sleep at
night is beyond me.
 
Getscores, great.  In my opinion, its assisted, plain and simple.  Call
it what it is and move on.  But I respect that others will differ and
therefore I have elected to opt out and just state to all that are using
it.  You don't know what I am doing, so, as N4TZ/9 states "you better
have you're A game goin'".  If that includes getscores, more power to
you.
 
Ed  N1UR