[CQ-Contest] Run Rates Back in the Day

[jpescatore at aol.com]

SO2R has probably had the biggest impact on overall run rates, but packet/RBN has had a huge impact on S&P rates - and also impacted the old decision of when to leave a run frequency for single radio ops.

For little guns who spend a lot time S&Ping, keeping up a 60+ rate was pretty good without spotting assistance. That meant if you did stop and find a run frequency, as long as you ran faster than 60 you would stick with it. But now with packet and RBN, I can easily maintain 100+ rates doing "power S&P" changing the decision about when to abandon a run frequency. It makes it that much more important to ignore the 10 minute rater meter.

SO2R combines the two, and provides real time intelligence to make band change decisions - so much the better. But just looking at the RBN feed gives similar information for 1 radio op band changes.

John K3TN