[CQ-Contest] The King (Packet cluster network) is dead! Long live the King

[David Gilbert]

But technology doesn't do everything for you unless you choose for it to 
do so.  You are free to operate however you wish, competing only against 
others who operate as you do while taking advantage of available 
contacts from everyone.  You can't claim that anyone using additional 
technology ruins anything for you during the contest because you can't 
even tell that they are doing so, and it doesn't ruin anything for you 
after the contest because they compete in a different category than you do.

I still don't get it.

Dave   AB7E




On 7/28/2010 3:34 PM, John Geiger wrote:
> I just don't like the fact that contesting had gotten to the point where technology does everything. Now you don't even have to copy CW or tune the band, the computer will do it all for you.  I would guess that sooner or later "unassisted" will allow for it.
>   
> 73s John AA5JG
>
> --- On Wed, 7/28/10, David Gilbert<xdavid at cis-broadband.com>  wrote:
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> From: David Gilbert<xdavid at cis-broadband.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] The King (Packet cluster network) is dead! Long live the King
> To: "John Geiger"<aa5jg at yahoo.com>, cq-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 4:34 PM
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> Why is that?  Why would you care how anyone finds you?
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> How will you even be able to tell whether anyone finds you via spinning a knob or via CW Skimmer?  If anything, Skimmer spots are more evenly distributed in time compared with current packet/cluster spots that tend to result in congregated callers.
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> Are you worried about having to compete against folks using Skimmer?  If so, simply operate unassisted.
>
> I don't get it ... what am I missing?
>
> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
>
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> On 7/28/2010 6:49 AM, John Geiger wrote:
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> Right now I just "tolerate" SSB contesting, but skimmer might lead me to become mainly a SSB contester.
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