[CQ-Contest] Single Op/Get Scores Assisted

[Steve London]

>> On Feb 24, 2013, at 8:15 AM, Gerry Hull<gerry at yccc.org>  wrote:
>>
>> Stan,
>>
>> Getscores has been up for more than five years, and the Russian site has
>> been up for a year or so.  No contesting authority has made any restriction
>> against the sites, and I don't think they will.
>>
>> If you are using the score posting site to make decisions about what to do
>> in a contest, you are not a player at all.

Gerry, I don't know how to interpret this statement.

There is no doubt that the score posting system could provide valuable 
information to the single-op, unassisted, serious competitor. Last 
weekend's ARRL DX CW is a perfect example. N2IC(/5) and K5GN were both 
SOAB HP, vying for the top spot in W5, and top-10 national positions. 
Neither of us posted to, or watched the score posting sites, even though 
there is nothing in the rules to stop us. However, for the sake of 
discussion, let's say K5GN posted his score, with band breakdowns, and 
N2IC was observing the score posting site. During the actual contest, 
K5GN did indeed catch good European openings on 20 meters during the wee 
hours of the morning, both mornings. N2IC did not, and in fact, didn't 
look for those openings. K5GN made many more 20 meter QSO's, and 
finished ahead of N2IC. If N2IC could, at a glance, see that K5GN was 
suddenly piling on 20 meter QSO's at strange times of the day, do you 
think he would react to that information ? Would he still be a "player" 
? Would he still be unassisted ?

73,
Steve, N2IC