[CQ-Contest] Contesting Technology - Phone Skimmer Nears Beta Test

[iw1ayd - Salvatore Irato]

Hi all.
Mario I could agree with you partially. The DL4RCK RTTY was made and 
worked on field well before any other RTTY Skimmer. Almost two years ago 
there was a working network of DL4RCK RTTY Skimmer. All those working 
pretty well.
Now I am looking, since almost January, as to make it easy, and the 
deployment of the VE3NEA Skimmers a lot of busted RTTY calls a lot of 
multiplier that are not multipliers and a whole plethora of bad 
call-signs spotted by the newest RTTY Skimmer. By myself my call was 
spotted as W1AYD several times in between IW1AYD. But also more easy 
calls that fall under simpler rules are busted since the new and not so 
bright RTTY Skimmer schema went on. Full stop.

About conservativeness, well you right Mario. We are still running 
everything we have on hands and also newest boxes mimicking older RS-232 
communications channels. Nor the radio, nor the loggers, nor the SDR 
radios are moving one step into new ways og communicating. Somebody 
think that the USB is a good think as that simplify the whole thing. 
Isn't, at all. It's just mimicking serial ports in an affordable way for 
the consumer hamradio brands. It's silly and noisy, not insulated even 
if the insulation could be done at a fraction of an interface box. Last 
but not least one one radio is able to do FSK. But still not with a 
emulation of an UART but just with wire signaling control. So it prone 
to PC timing thus unutterably jitter-ready.

It's all daisy chained radios, native interfaces, drivers for all those 
even emulated and loggers.

The only SDR that I have seen a little bit advanced are those with the 
bandmap, cluster received calls BTW, over the waterfall. That's a big 
improvement if calls aren't already source busted.

But nothing else is really moving speaking about Contesting technology. 
Not even a simple gamer programmable keyboard applied to all those 
CTRL-EASYTOREMEBER or ALT-EASYTOFAIL commands.
Not any single improvement. Just some small, quick, short, steps and not 
all forward. But just one forward and two backward to preserve habits 
under the compatibility cover. Conservative is too much brain consuming. 
We are much worse than conservative Mario. :-)

Hope that my English ... Standard disclaimer apply.

                         73 de iw1ayd Salvo

On 04/04/2015 17:54, cq-contest-request at contesting.com wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 20:25:06 +0200
> From: "Marijan Miletic"<s56a at bit.si>
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> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Contesting Technology - Phone Skimmer Nears Beta
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> "Matt, KA1R, developed an SSB version of the CW Skimmer. With a CQWW score
> of over 1M points, and an innovation score of 81, his Xtreme score of 181
> was the highest of all Xtreme entries."
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> Five years ago there was a hope that mature speech recognition technology
> would be applied to limited vocabulary hamradio contesting.  It has become
> April fools joke instead sadly illustrating dumbing of our hobby.  It took
> us 25 years to recognize DX Cluster.  Fortunately Alex, VE3NEA made a leap
> jump with CW & RTTY Skimmer.  Internet also helped with remote operations.
> Superior SDR delayed by M/M stations without proper handling of collocated
> TX.  The best scientific hobby of 21st century seems to be difficult for
> conservative OM:-(
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> Happy Easter & Passover &  73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU