[CQ-Contest] Skimmer - unassisted

[Telegraphy.com]

No I suggest the contest organizers should define in clear and certain terms 
what constitutes
"assisted" and what is "unassisted" - then there would be no question.  At 
least not until the next
person who is looking for an advantage over everyone else (usually because 
they couldn't
win on a level playing field) finds some sort of loophole to get around the 
rules.  There
are always those who will spend their time and energy trying to get around 
the rules that rather than
trying to improve their stations and/or their operating skills.

73

Tony


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoffrey Way" <wayg at cape-vision.com>
To: <trogo at telegraphy.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 1:05 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Skimmer - unassisted


> Tony,
>
> Once upon a time in the early dark days of competitive operating,
> there was a Dupe Sheet. Along came some guys with computers,
> and now the task of detecting dupes within milliseconds was
> offloaded to the computer. Do you ALSO suggest we abandon the
> ASSISTANCE of a computer and go back to paper dupe sheets?
>
> After all, we used to perform that task ourselves... but now we
> are ASSISTED by the computer with that function. Oh, and about
> logging itself...
>
> You get the idea. Is it really so cut and dried? Perhaps the delineation
> could be better described as: A non-assisted operator does ALL the
> WORK of gathering the exchange info that will be logged. If any part of
> the information was provided by an outside source other than the station
> they are trying to copy, they have become assisted.
>
> -- KA1IOR
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