If you can create something approaching a 'known traffic' environment, it will provide some measure of protection. Sure there'll always be the ones who prefer to operate keeping their own lookout- which they're quite entitled to in class G (and the military are included here) but a lot of pilots here in the congested south east like to be talking to someone, especially when that someone can potentially help if that fan thing on the nose stops, or they become 'temporarily uncertain of position'.