[CQ-Contest] Rule Change Debate on Skimmer -- a "worthless" solution

[Tod -ID]

Although 'mortally wounded' by Dave's reduction of my semi-serious
suggestion to its proper status, trivial,
I support his thought about the difficulty in finding out what "using the
Skimmer technology" really means.

See below -

> If I do register as an X entry and I spend more time playing 
> with neat technology and having fun than making contacts, is 
> that going to prove anything?  How will you judge the 
> effectiveness of using a skimmer with what will likely be a 
> very small sample of unknown quality stations in this new X 
> class??  It would be like trying to figure out the 
> effectiveness of using packet in the first trials of a packet 
> network in the early 1980's... there just won't be enough 
> users, using it seriously enough, with any kind of strategy 
> to know how to best use it, to make any kind of a serious decision.

No matter what the outcome of the Great Debate, we need some pioneers who
are willing to sacrifice their score opportunity for the good of their
fellow contest ops. My X-Class concept was intended to allow the debate to
remain unresolved and let guys try the Skimmer in their regular class
without penalty as long as they volunteered that they had used it.
Pre-registration is not really a good idea for this.

Therefore I agree we need the official establishment of the Doug's [K1DG]
"Single Op Distracted Class".

> At this point I would personally put anyone in the X class in 
> k1dg's infamous 'single op distracted' class and give them 
> bonus points for their efforts in improving the technology.
> 
> David Robbins K1TTT


Tod, K0TO