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Re: [CQ-Contest] What Skimmer is!

To: Michael Coslo <mjc5@psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What Skimmer is!
From: DL8MBS <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:52:53 +0200
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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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