[CQ-Contest] WRTC2018 Qualifying

[Martin , LU5DX]

Hi Hans,
With all due respect.
I believe you do not have all the information you need to make your
statement.
To say that, it would be really interesting if you tried to enter SOAB(A)
in a serious effort, trying to beat a personal best of yours or a State
Record previously set in SOAB.
If you do, you will realize that it goes way beyond of just pointing and
clicking to be competitive and break a SOAB mark, but this time in SOAB(A).
I have entered SOAB for eight years in CQ WW and other contests and last
year I switched back to SOAB. Simply because I wanted to try something
different. I find SOAB more rewarding though. But SOAB(A) ops deserve all
my respect and admiration.
You do need to be even better than SOAB at balancing your run/mult time.
You need to determine when to call a mult or not. You need to really listen
to the calls of the DX station you are calling because spots get busted
quite often.
You need all the skills involved in SOAB plus you need to be able to handle
tons of information that go against the "Rate is King" rule.

Despite that, I always believed and I still do, that SOAB/SOAB(A) should be
merged to eliminate one of the many ways cheaters have to cheat in our
hobby and ruin it.

Vy 73,

Martin, LU5DX

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:

> That is truly tragic as it favors "point and click" skills over "radioman"
> skills.
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> 73, de Hans, K0HB
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> On Monday, Dec 1, 2014 at 21:50, Randy Thompson K5ZD <k5zd at charter.net>,
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> The surprise for me is that Assisted scores are compared against
> Unassisted.
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> This really says that if you want maximum points, you have to plan on
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> working Assisted.
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