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Re: [CQ-Contest] A new "DX cluster" experience for contesters

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] A new "DX cluster" experience for contesters
From: David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:42:16 -0700
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How would you even know whether you were working a robot or not 
(assuming it was properly implemented)?  And if you can't tell the 
difference, why would you care (assuming you were in a separate entry 
category)?

Dave  AB7E




On 4/18/2010 8:24 AM, Zack Widup wrote:
> I'm waiting for the day when robots make all the QSO's in a contest. I see
> that as useless and that would be the day when I gave up. As of now, it
> seems one's score would be the result of four things - operating skill, the
> quality of one's station, location and band conditions. Where's the
> operating skill in having a robot doing it? I suppose there may be some
> skill in writing a program that works, but that's not operating skill. And I
> still like to think I'm working a real person at the other end.
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