[CQ-Contest] What Skimmer is!

[DL8MBS]

Michael Coslo wrote:

>The whole idea of contesting is supposed to be a training ground for Amateurs to hone their skills.  That includes finding a station, passing the traffic both ways, then repeat. It isn't contesting for it's own sake.
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If finding a station is one of the human operator´s skills to be 
compared - what for do you then want to use skimmer in contesting?

>So it is fairly simple to dictate that a human operator is doing the  
>QSO's, and the logging. Much beyond that is technological throttling.
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Is it technological throttling to ban cars from bicycle races but still develop better cars (i.e.for car racing)?

73, Chris

(being regularly detected and flawlessly identified on a crowded 40m-band by an EU-skimmer in WPX with 5W to a lowwire or constantly followed by a skimmer in the US when using different CQ-frequencies in CQ-M with 100 W - not too bad for a technology in its very early stages)

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