That's really pretty funny considering that you cannot in the least tell
on the air whether the person you are working is using CW Skimmer or not.
Your English may be fine but your logic definitely is not. You can
think of CW Skimmer as simply the combination of a few other things that
have been in existence (and legal for contesting) for many years:
a. CW decoders
b. spotting networks (when claiming an assisted category)
c. bandmaps
Your rant is sadly misplaced. I can think of other things like Super
Check Partial and "History" Files generated by others that have
contributed far more to the lessening of skill in radiosport than does
CW Skimmer, and I can almost guarantee that you use your logger or a
memory keyer to actually send CW instead of using a hand key dit-by-dah
as did those "founding users" (whatever that means). And you do know
that hams, including those who use CW Skimmer, are pretty much the only
ones keeping this elegant communication mode alive, right?? All those
other users simply abandoned it long ago in favor of modes requiring
even less operator skill.
For the record, I have never used CW Skimmer in text decode mode during
a contest ... but I see absolutely no difference between it and other
forms of assistance when following the rules of the contest. Please
explain to me how I am wrong ... but try using logic this time.
Dave AB7E
On 11/29/2012 2:05 AM, Charles Harpole wrote:
I enjoy trying to use the English language to be specific and expressive.
Here is my latest effort..............
The CW Skimmer is an obscene perversity of ham radio. All the art and
skill of this elegant communication mode, CW, is destroyed. The founding
users of Morse Code, who saved ships and passed millions of messages vital
and mundane, are dishonored. The joy of doing a difficult activity well is
lost. Ham radio in general and contesting specifically is changed forever
for the worse by this abomination.
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