At 02:18 PM 6/17/2008, Stan Stockton wrote:
>However, Skimmer does introduce something new and that is the
>ability for someone
>have that "good heart" and spot all the stations calling in the
>pile-up without having to do much of
>anything. There is a big difference between someone entering
>callsigns all night long
>and putting a receiver with Skimmer on 3502 for the entire contest -probably
>why the problem has not been rampant..
If the remote spotting of their pile-ups was perceived to provide a
real competitive advantage, why haven't the bigger M/M stations made
cooperative arrangements to create private spotting networks with
their non-competing peers on the other sides of the oceans (I'll spot
your pile-up, you spot mine)?
The extraneous issues of manpower and boredom in manual vs. automated
spotting, I think would be moot in the case of cooperating multi-ops.
AFAIK, this has never happened. If such spotting was of value and
legal then why has it not happened? I can think of several possible
explanations:
(1) Competitive stations don't view networks of remote stations
spotting their pileup as conferring any significant advantage.
(2) Competitors accept that generating and/or using spots of their
pile-up made by remote stations is contrary to the existing rules.
(3) No has thought of this before now.
I don't see that CW Skimmer makes any qualitative changes to (1) &
(2). And I'm extremely incredulous that this possibility has never
been contemplated before now.
73,
Mike K1MK
Michael Keane K1MK
k1mk@alum.mit.edu
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