[CQ-Contest] CQWW Assisted - Is it just another Urban Myth

[MARK BAILEY]

Hi Holger:


In the contests with Single Operator categories, a Single Operator can't use information from other operators, computers (e.g. skimmer), the packet cluster, and the RBN to increase their score.  That someone has created the packet clusters and RBN offers me no advantage, as an unassisted operator, over anyone else - and I have no control over what other operators and computers do.


Everyone, whether operating as a Single Operator, Unlimited/Assisted, or Multi-Operator, gets the same "advantage" you cite.  Only Unlimited/Assisted or Multi-Operator categories (in contests that have Single Operator categories) can USE such information to improve their scores however - and that is also a big advantage.


You have the option of operating Unlimited/Assisted in at least most of those contests that still have Single Operator categories if you don't want to compete with Single Operators because of the perceived assistance they receive.


Given that there are now Unlimited/Assisted categories in most contests that still have single operator categories, why do you want to eliminate the single operator categories?


73,


Mark, KD4D

> 
>     On August 1, 2017 at 6:13 PM "Holger at 9h3m.com" <holger at 9h3m.com> wrote:
> 
>     No top operator in any contest is unassisted! The moment you get spotted by any skimmer or other Ham you get assistance!
>     Only because you don't use the cluster at your station does not make you unassisted.
> 
>     I would like to see this acknowledged by more organisers in combining assisted and unassisted classes. In my eyes not doing this is cheating already! Especially since it is impossible to control this.
> 
>     The reason why the top operators join unassisted lays in the WRTC qualification rules. To gain maximum points you have to enter SO unassisted. So the top operators are forced to use those classes. And the main reason for endless pile ups are not the super skills but the spotting assistance they get. Another driver is the status given to those classes. Unassisted is established as the premium over assisted. Look at the forms of awarding and acknowledging results. There is a tone of discrimination when it comes to assisted class.
> 
>     We down in the Pacific know exactly about the power of cluster spots as only after we get spotted we have runs!!! No one points antennas towards us otherwise. If I do unassisted I can tell when I got spotted. I can even tell you if it was a skimmer or dx-cluster.
> 
>     If you can't arrange to block unassisted claiming operators from getting spotted on any network you are operating assisted no matter what you claim.
>     Pleas stop lying to yourself!
> 
>     73 Holger- ZL3IO/ZM4T
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