[CQ-Contest] Determining ASSISTED vs NON-ASSISTED -- was: =>RE: Cheating and bad journalism

[David Gilbert]

That is simply not true.  For almost all contests (there may be one 
exception where the rules simply outlaw CW Skimmer by name ... I don't 
remember for sure) you can use CW Skimmer in "Blind" mode and it is 
perfectly legal for unassisted operation.  You get a panadapter display 
without callsign decoding, but with enough resolution that you can 
actually decode the signals visually if you train yourself to do so ... 
also perfectly legal for unassisted operation.

73,
Dave   AB7E




On 9/24/2011 8:15 AM, JVarney wrote:
> Collins, Graham<CollinG at navcanada.ca>  wrote:
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> I agree. An example of hair splitting centers around the use of panadapters and bandscopes. If you have a panadapter showing 180 kHz of spectrum in real time without Skimmer, it's deemed Unassisted. If Skimmer is turned on, it's Assisted.