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Re: [CQ-Contest] Skimmer

To: dieven@msn.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Skimmer
From: Barry <w2up3@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:05:47 -0500
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There's no question the forward march of technology cannot be stopped.

The obvious solution is to have one single-op category, defined as one 
operator at the radio(s.)

Barry W2UP

Dick Dievendorff wrote:
> I love these debates... I remember them for automatic keying equipment,
> computer logging, octopuses, SO2R, etc.  
>
> It costs a bunch to be competitive these days.  SO2R is almost essential.
> That's really rough on people who want to do contesting on a reasonable
> budget.   
>
> I remember talking to a rabid home brewer.  Wouldn't touch anything
> commercially manufactured.  Very haughty about it.  I asked him if he was
> making resistors out of the clay in his back yard and how hard did he have
> to suck to make a vacuum tube...
>
> Time and technology march on.  It's never again going to be "what it used to
> be". That's why they have straight key night.
>
> So some computer assistance (keying, logging, microcontrollers that define
> the radio) are OK, but this one should be prohibited?  Hmmmm...
>
> Kinda cool technology, regardless of what you think the rules ought to be...
>
> 73 de Dick, K6KR
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill Tippett
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 6:35 AM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Skimmer
>
>
>
>          This may present an interesting dilemma for contest
> sponsors.  Skimmer is pure hardware...no external help from other
> ops.  How could you disallow Skimmer (effectively gleaning spots
> like Packet) and yet allow SO2R?  Both are purely hardware, so
> why allow one and not the other?
>
>          Another problem is how to police whether spots are
> coming from Skimmer or Packet?  I remember competing
> against a "single op" on 10m who claimed his Sub-RX
> allowed him to have multiplier totals like multi-multis.  ;-)
> Now he could claim he was using Skimmer, which might be
> legal depending on how the sponsors rule on it.
>
>                                  73,  Bill  W4ZV 
>
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