[CQ-Contest] Re; Skimmer Ultimate Setup

[Sandy Taylor]

Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Re; Skimmer Ultimate Setup


> None of the other hardware in a SO unassisted shack actually 
> does the hard part -- copying CW -- for you. Skimmer tells 
> you who's there, where he is and it's not much of a stretch 
> before it automatically tunes the radio to the station, calls 
> him, types the call into the logger for you and acks the QSO. 
> That it may miss a few guys doesn't change that.

By this logic *** EVERY *** RTTY operator is "assisted" since 
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Unfortunately, there is no logic to that idea: RTTY has never been
considered a format that humans can decode.

It's as spurious an argument as the idea that to call Skimmer assistance
relegates those who use transceivers they didn't build themselves, from
semiconductors they didn't create themselves from silicon they didn't mine
themselves, as assisted.

RTTY has always been considered a machine-copied mode. CW is a skill that we
should treasure, not sell out to some $20 receiver and $70 software program.

73, Kelly
Ve4xt