But technology doesn't do everything for you unless you choose for it to
do so. You are free to operate however you wish, competing only against
others who operate as you do while taking advantage of available
contacts from everyone. You can't claim that anyone using additional
technology ruins anything for you during the contest because you can't
even tell that they are doing so, and it doesn't ruin anything for you
after the contest because they compete in a different category than you do.
I still don't get it.
Dave AB7E
On 7/28/2010 3:34 PM, John Geiger wrote:
> I just don't like the fact that contesting had gotten to the point where
> technology does everything. Now you don't even have to copy CW or tune the
> band, the computer will do it all for you. I would guess that sooner or
> later "unassisted" will allow for it.
>
> 73s John AA5JG
>
> --- On Wed, 7/28/10, David Gilbert<xdavid@cis-broadband.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: David Gilbert<xdavid@cis-broadband.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] The King (Packet cluster network) is dead! Long
> live the King
> To: "John Geiger"<aa5jg@yahoo.com>, cq-contest@contesting.com
> Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 4:34 PM
>
>
>
> Why is that? Why would you care how anyone finds you?
>
> How will you even be able to tell whether anyone finds you via spinning a
> knob or via CW Skimmer? If anything, Skimmer spots are more evenly
> distributed in time compared with current packet/cluster spots that tend to
> result in congregated callers.
>
> Are you worried about having to compete against folks using Skimmer? If so,
> simply operate unassisted.
>
> I don't get it ... what am I missing?
>
> 73,
> Dave AB7E
>
>
> On 7/28/2010 6:49 AM, John Geiger wrote:
>
> Right now I just "tolerate" SSB contesting, but skimmer might lead me to
> become mainly a SSB contester.
>
>
>
>
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