In this weekend's CW contest, Skimmer and the telnet cluster were functioning at peak efficiency. I commend everyone who made it work it is a tremendous technical achievement. Towards the end of the
I'm not sure I fully understand, Tony, but it seems to me that all of these instances involve a station using the Internet to inform everyone of his call and frequency. Isn't that a clearcut violatio
In this weekend's CW contest, Skimmer and the telnet cluster were functioning at peak efficiency. Here is my summary of the issues raised by K1KP - 1. Is it appropriate, in a ham-radio contest, to us
More specifically, Pete, it informs the owner of the pileup of the spotting stations call and frequency, IN REAL TIME. Some will agree it clearly violates the spirit and intent of the rules if not th
There is actually a 3rd option (Not MY opionion, but I know it well) "Spirt" and "Intent" don't matter, only the RULES matter, and if you can find a loophole, go for it (Hey, we can say that SO2R is
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:45:34 +0100
Let's ban all manual spots in contests! Screw the phone guys, they should all do without the cluster or just learn code! I'm sure this is not what you meant. You probably meant let's ban all manual s
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:38:55 -0400
Hey Tony, I don't often comment on this reflector, but read it quite often. I've gone assisted about 50% of the time the past couple years, mostly just in the slower contests, just to increase my enj
I think it might be simpler than that, Mike. He had his logging software set to automatically spot when he enters the QSO and just logged you before the QSO was completed. That's because I tend to av
On the other hand, I have certainly noticed casual contesters spotting the station they are calling before they have worked it. In any case, the way I use spots I would never see attempted cheats of
Bob makes a good point. N1MM Logger, for example, has a function to spot all S&P QSOs that are not already in the bandmap. When you are S&P, the program logs the QSO and sends the spot as soon as you
There are three ways this can occur: Guy calling CQ uses Skimmer in mode that copies everything on his run frequency in mode that doesn't require CQ or Test to be sent. Guy calling on Frequency assum
VE9AA wrote: Normally you would only spot a station after you would work them, right? Not right! Hams are given freqs for propagation research and tech edu. I might find band openings not yet reporte
You said: "I prefer mouse clicking instead of slowly turning VFO knob over empty band." Here are my metrics and other comments on Assisted from the ARRL CW DX: Qs min rate Spots Worked 1284 1405 54 U
first I'm with Stan on this (full text of his post below.) The rules against self-spotting are designed to prevent the more egregious form, which is to spot one's run frequency. The potential impact
Well, I'll go one step farther. Self spotting one's CQ frequency is not a choice on CW due to implementation of skimmer and reverse beacon network which has made the notion of self spotting obsolete.
As has been pointed out in the past, having your XIT turned on and off frequency in the range of about - 250 hz to + 250 hz has to be a good thing for the callers and the guy who just spotted himsel