[CQ-Contest] NCJ Skimmer Article Deferred

[Pete Smith]

By agreement with Editor Al Dewey, K0AD, I'm delaying my article for NCJ, 
tentatively titled "Skimmer - the First Contest Season", until the May-June 
issue.  That will allow me to gather experiences from all the winter 
contests, including ARRL DX, and still make my deadline of March 15.

The purpose of this message is to ask once again for your first-person 
reports on the use of Skimmer in serious contesting.  How well (or badly) 
did it work?  If you ultimately decided not to use it, why not?  If you 
did, what impact did it have?  Did anyone try the new "blind mode", which 
disables decoding and turns it into a very smart software panadaptor for 
use by traditional single ops?

If you're interested in the technical side of Skimmer use, I also want to 
put in a pitch for the Skimmertalk reflector, 
skimmertalk at contesting.com.  You can subscribe by going to 
http://dayton.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/skimmertalk .  A lot of the 
people who are giving Skimmer a serious try hang out there, and are 
generous about sharing their experience.

73, Pete N4ZR
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