[CQ-Contest] No advantage to assisted?

[Kelly Taylor]

Hi Bill,

Isn't that a bit like saying it's impossible to have just come across your
pileup by tuning? Were you hidden in some deep, dark corner of the band? Was
there some mysterious phenomenon that would have made your pileup invisible
to a band scope?

Does that mean every unassisted operator must never join a big pileup for
fear of being a suspected cheat?

The plural of anecdote is not data. K1TTT, IIRC, had some interesting
analyses that may come closer to proof, but I'm not sure I'd stake a
defamation lawsuit on it.

Was there no such thing as an operator with a nose for mults doing very well
in the days before spotting?

It just seems to me that some operators are so gripped by paranoia that I
can't imagine they're having fun doing this anymore. To me, if a hobby isn't
enjoyable, it isn't worth it.

73, kelly
ve4xt


On 12/12/14 8:45 AM, "K4XS via CQ-Contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
wrote:

> Better to ask the log checkers.
>  
> However, when I operated from KH6 and had a packet pileup, some  well known
> unassisted guys would show up on a pretty regular basis.  Just  chance?
> Only they, and the log checkers know for sure.
>  
> K4XS
>  
>  
> In a message dated 12/12/2014 2:41:38 P.M. Coordinated Universal Tim,
> Ktfrog007 at aol.com writes:
> 
> How widespread is this practice?  Everyone talks about it but I've  never
> heard any statistics.
>  
> Given human nature, I assume the worst, too, but some real data would be
> better.
>  
> Everyone talks about alien abductions, too.
>  
> 73,
> Ken, AB1J
>  
>  
> In a message dated 12/12/2014 14:26:38 GMT Standard Time,
> cq-contest at contesting.com writes:
> 
> If it  wasn't an advantage, why would  so many guys
> use it and then claim  single op  unassisted?
> 
> K4XS
> 
> 
> 
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