Michael Coslo wrote:
>The whole idea of contesting is supposed to be a training ground for Amateurs
>to hone their skills. That includes finding a station, passing the traffic
>both ways, then repeat. It isn't contesting for it's own sake.
>
>
If finding a station is one of the human operator´s skills to be
compared - what for do you then want to use skimmer in contesting?
>So it is fairly simple to dictate that a human operator is doing the
>QSO's, and the logging. Much beyond that is technological throttling.
>
>
Is it technological throttling to ban cars from bicycle races but still develop
better cars (i.e.for car racing)?
73, Chris
(being regularly detected and flawlessly identified on a crowded 40m-band by an
EU-skimmer in WPX with 5W to a lowwire or constantly followed by a skimmer in
the US when using different CQ-frequencies in CQ-M with 100 W - not too bad for
a technology in its very early stages)
(www.dl8mbs.de)
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