^^^^^^^^^^^ Hold on there, it is relevant...a local skimmer isn't an outside source. Tor N4OGW CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.cont
^^^^^^^^^^^ Hold on there, it is relevant...a local skimmer isn't an outside source. Tor N4OGW Tor: The difference is only relevant if you judge it based on something someone wrote in an e-mail inst
Tor, What you describe is SO2R - not assistance. If you listen to 10 receivers yourself, you are doing it. 73, Bob W5OV _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Cont
Of course it is, Joe. Memory keyers and logging programs (book-keepers) do not search out and identify stations for you to work which are outside your audio passband. 73, de Hans, K0HB Just a boy an
You're correct there is no technological difference between assisted and unassisted - the difference it that another PERSON is providing the information in the assisted class. Where the information
No, they don't do the same thing but ALL TECHNOLOGY is assistance in one form or another. Technology assists he operator to be more efficient - whether it is to listen on more than one place (SOnR),
A lot of common sense there from N1UR. I have also been very surprised to learn that there are people operating contests with CW decoders. I have seen no real data so I can't judge just how common th
In the posts I've read (most of them) I haven't seen any "anti-technology" bias at all Joe. I certainly agree that "skimmer" is cool technology and will likely have a positive effect on Amateur Radi
Hi Tor, Sorry to disagree, but I think you're wrong. If you park a second receiver on another band and listen to it, YOU are doing the listening. Anytime YOU are doing something, it's not assistance.
Well, yes, that rule is vague. That's part of the whole debate! And yours is not the only interpretation. You can equally well argue that an extra bandscope parked on an empty band is "DX alerting
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:20:27 -0500
So... does that mean that guys who use 1 radio don't have to compete in the same category against guys who use 2 radios? Ya can't have it both ways. That being said, I fully agree that a networked C
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:20:56 -0500
I fully agree with you Joe. To a point... Unfortunately, now that the Skimmer technology has progressed to a "networked" stage, I could not, in all good conscience, differentiate it from the cluster.
CW Skimmer is a new application of existing technology (CW decoders, broadband receivers, panadapters, additional receiver, etc.) that allows an operator to be more productive IN ANOTHER AREA of the
Your logging computer can operate EITHER "stand alone" within your sphere of influence OR be connected to a network of computers that exchange information outside your sphere of influence. Whether a
I think an argument needs to be considered that while technologically within reach and feasible, some technological items are best left out of the rules. For SO unassisted, I tend to think that Skimm
Wrong again, Joe. The CQWW rules, in fact, have already addressed this. -- 1. Single Operator High: Those stations at which one person performs all of the operating, logging, and spotting functions.
With all due respect, I don't believe that is true. Skimmer time-shifts. All of the other things you mention require that the operator actually be in the chair to take advantage of them. Skimmer, eve
Joe, You seem to have a real passion for the skimmer and technology. Also a real opinion on how Skimmer should be allowed for single ops. Since I don't recall working you in any CW contests, you are
Exactemundo! It is another person or another skimmer, swimmer etc. outside of one's shack that constitutes assistance whatever. Lets look at the "crime" that skimmer would bring: 1. Enhances contest
Well, I had no idea that writing one update story about forging new rules to deal with the Skimmer would prompt such a firestorm of comments this week..... Now as for those ops who read this reflecto