[CQ-Contest] Skimmer vs humans in KCDXC pileup competition

Pete Smith n4zr at contesting.com
Sun Mar 23 11:27:09 EDT 2008


For those who are curious, I just did a series of Skimmer runs against the 
1999 KCDXC pileup recording.  The human winner that year was W9WI with 71 
calls;  The median score was 38. Skimmer counted 36-7, depending on the 
run, but by design it only counts and lists those that it hears twice 
identically ("verified calls").  Watching the Skimmer bandmap and the 
decoder row below the waterfall, I counted at least 20 more callsigns that 
it properly decoded but did not count because it only heard them once.

If all of those were correct, and there were no busts on the ones it heard 
twice, then it would have placed 7th or 8th.  Not bad.

73, Pete N4ZR



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