[CQ-Contest] Opinion: SO-unassisted should not be using CW Skimmer

[w5ov at w5ov.com]

Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion; it is not necessarily
representative of the official position of any contest committee I may be
a member of.

I disagree with two things Tor says.

1) I also do not see *ANY* difference between a local and remote skimmer
system - if it's not the operator finding stuff, it doesn't make any
difference whether it's local or not. So, there is no "BIG" difference -
they are both the same: i.e; not the operator doing the finding. Contests
should not consider these two different categories - assistance is
assistance.

2) I also do not agree that "skimmer is not very good at copying weak
signals on the low bands". This is just not true. It is amazingly good at
finding new signals and quickly. Granted, it may not be as good as a
skilled human, but again, that makes no difference as whatever it does, is
providing assistance.

Skimmer is an amazing technology and I have a great respect for what it
can do. But, to pretend that having such a system installed locally should
not be considered assistance is just foolish logic.

73,

Bob W5OV







> Hi Tor:
>
> I, for one, don't agree - I see little difference between "local"
> skimmers and the worldwide network.  To the operator, they look the same
> during a contest.
>
> 73,
>
> Mark, KD4D
>
> On 11/29/2011 5:57 PM, RT Clay wrote:
>> It is also worth pointing out (again) that there is a BIG difference
>> between allowing only "local" skimmers at one's own station, and
>> allowing connection to a worldwide network of other people's skimmers.
>> Some people only think of "skimmer" as the worldwide network- but so far
>> no contest makes a distinction between the two cases.
>>
>> In the case of only a local skimmer there are still situations where a
>> human op is better- for example skimmer is not very good at copying weak
>> signals on the low bands.
>>
>> Tor
>> N4OGW
>>
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