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Re: [CQ-Contest] Rule Change Debate on Skimmer

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Rule Change Debate on Skimmer
From: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <w4tv@subich.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:23:53 -0400
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> Memory keyers and logging programs (book-keepers) do
> not search out and identify stations for you to work 
> which are outside your audio passband.

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 
contest art.  Other than the manner of presentation it breaks no 
new ground. 

A local Skimmer is to CW Decoders and SOnR as computer logging 
is to the paper logs and dupe sheet.  It breaks no new ground 
in function ... only in form.  



> -----Original Message-----
> From: K0HB [mailto:k-zero-hb@earthlink.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:19 PM
> To: W4TV Joe Subich; w5ov@w5ov.com; cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Rule Change Debate on Skimmer
> 
> 
> >
> > Skimmer is no more "assistance" than a memory keyer or computer 
> > logging.  
> >
> 
> 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 and his radio
> --
>  ><{{{{*>    http://www.home.earthlink.net/~k0h
> 

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