[CQ-Contest] Rule Change Debate on Skimmer

[Zack Widup]

Someone is going to have fun programming that!

It DOES happen once in a while that a rare DX entity gets on in a contest 
and gets a pileup.  Suddenly they are working people "5 up". The robot 
program would have to recognize that the DX is on one frequency and the 
pileup is 5 kHz up and the robot would have to call the DX into the 
pileup 5 kHz up.  If it calls on top of the DX it will get a lot of 
people mad and if it calls the stations in the pileup no one is going to 
come back to it.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Stan Stockton wrote:

> Rudy N2WQ Wrote:
>>  As long as it is not robots making
>> the QSO and station
>> transmitter/receiver are not scattered
>> across the globe, let the humans use
>> as much technology as they can.
>
> Now we have something to talk about....
> How do you propose eliminating that
> next, rather easy step up from Skimmer -
> Robotic Automated QSO machines?
>