Dave,
>From a "assisted vs unassisted query", why would this be any different than
getting info of a stations presence from a bandscope, panadapter etc?
You're substituting a blip on a bansdscope vs an asterisk on a bandmap.
Granted, with some radios it is easier to change to the proper freq via a
bandmap, but not all.
Seems perfectly legal for unassisted operation to me.
73, Bob K8IA
In a message dated 10/21/2010 1:52:48 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
xdavid@cis-broadband.com writes:
For assisted operating categories, N1MM can receive telnetted spots from
DX clusters and CW Skimmer networks and display the callsigns at the proper
frequency on the N1MM bandmaps. It is then possible for the user to QSY to
those spots via point/click with the mouse or via CTRL-UP/DOWN ARROW,
which is a very useful feature when you want to step through identified
stations to quickly look for multipliers or new contacts.
CW Skimmer has a Blind Mode option where signals are displayed and circles
are placed in the CW Skimmer bandmap at the frequency where it thinks
there may be a station, but no text or callsigns are displayed. In that mode,
CW Skimmer is generally considered legal for unassisted operations since it
performs no differently than any panadapter. In Blind Mode, however, CW
Skimmer will not telnet any information at all to N1MM (I've tried and
VE3NEA confirms that it won't)).
If N1MM had a menu option to substitute telnetted callsigns (either from
CW Skimmer or from the various clusters) with simply an asterisk placed at
the proper frequency on the N1MM bandmap, would that conceivably be legal
for unassisted operation? Presumably the bandmap could still display the
actual callsigns of those stations you work or Store from the main entry
window ... only the telnetted callsigns would be replaced by the asterisk.
N1MM
could even keep track of the callsigns internally to avoid duplicate spots
... it just wouldn't let you know what those callsign were.
Obviously only the various contest sponsors could strictly answer this
question, but I'm curious what the field at large thinks.
73,
Dave AB7E
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