[CQ-Contest] SO Unassisted Scores vs. SO with "Help" Scores

[Jeff Steinman]

It's true that in most years, for CQ WW and ARRL DX, the highest single operator all band score comes from the operator who is Unassisted. But I do not believe that means "Help", call it packet or skimmer or other, is not a valuable tool to increase scores. And in fact I believe that if the guys winning single op Unassisted today used "Help" they would continue to win, and at a score higher than if they did NOT use "Help". 

It's just that they operate Unassisted because they like to find stations on their own, the old fashioned way.

73,

Jeff N5TJ