[CQ-Contest] Ban all contest spotting?

[Felipe J Hernandez]

Dave

The question is not making a bigger score, he would have still beaten the closest  competitor
because it is skill more than enything else.. I would see him going to the spots and fighting pileups
and at the end wasting more time on endless calling than quick calls on traditional so2r work.

My point is that if  packet is needed the top operator will use it to improve his score even more
as part of his strategy, so yeah even in a few examples where a Assisted score has barely beaten a 
no packet score, is just a matter of time the packet less operator will use the packet strategy
at some point to still beat the skillfull packeteer...

For me packet gives me more headaches and slows me down too much, I dont care
for it, but the reality is that its going to stay.

Felipe
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dave Lawley 
  To: cq-contest at contesting.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Ban all contest spotting?


  > Its been proven that the top single ops without packet have neven been beaten by an 
  > assisted operator. UNLESS of course you think that the top single ops, do use packet
  > and they are cheaters too.. IN response to that I can attest that I had the opportunity to sit
  > behind N5TJ on his both record breaking cw/ssb operations from my QTH and that superb score was done
  > with pure passing mults and lots of two radio operation... so im absolutely certain
  > that you dont win with packet or at least break records.

  It's not as simple as that. I'm prepared to bet that if N5TJ had packet 
  available he could have made an even bigger score.

  It need have nothing to do with changing your operating style and 
  following packet spots. Imagine Jeff is running on 20 and has the second 
  radio on 15. He comes across a pileup and would like to know if it is a 
  needed mult. The guy 'running' the pileup is one of these idiots who 
  only signs his call every 10 minutes or so (because of the constant 
  supply of packet users who know - or think they know - his call).

  With packet available, Jeff need only look at the window to find out who 
  the station is, and whether he needs to call or not. Without packet, he 
  either spends several minutes on the second radio trying to find out, or 
  he moves on and risks losing the mult.

  And anyway, you will find several places in the CQWW records where the 
  single op assisted record is higher than the unassisted record. Look at 
  the USA records in CQWW Phone for example.

  Dave G4BUO

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