[CQ-Contest] I see the future for ssb

[Stan Stockton]

Luddite nonsense?  I don't think so.  

We are slowly but surely removing the skill that was once required to do well in a contest - both CW and SSB.  CW will be first since it is easier to do with a computer.  

Within a few years you will see this reflector filled with complaints of robot stations providing extra QRM and/or beating individual efforts with an efficient S&P system that uses Skimmer to facilitate working every station that calls CQ.

As long as an antenna is required I will still have some interest.

73...Stan, K5GO



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On Mar 8, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr at contesting.com> wrote:

> Charly, this is Luddite nonsense.
> 
> Some might find the following video funny in this context. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8m5d0_everything-is-amazing-and-nobody-i_fun is Louis CK's monolog titled "everything is amazing and nobody is happy."  You can skip in about 2 minutes to get to the relevant stuff.
> 
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 3/8/2013 7:38 AM, Charles Harpole wrote:
>> Coming soon to contesting near you..........
>> 
>> -Speech enhancement where normal speech is speeded up by X2 or more;
>> computer reads it, slows it down for you if you want that, but computer
>> automatically logs the fast speech it decoded.
>> 
>> -SSB Skimmer reads wide bands of speech in contests, decodes and delivers
>> it to contesters who point and click and computer works the station.
>> 
>> This will allow ops to complete a whole ssb contest without hearing a word
>> of it.
>> 
>> What did the book "1984" say about the future?
>> 
> 
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