[CQ-Contest] Robotic contest operating, why knot?

[Hank Greeb]

Then, why do I get beaten up for predicting that a robot controlled CW 
entry will be the top score in something like CQWW DX or ???

72/73 de n8xx Hg
QRP >99.44% of the time

On 12/17/2018 9:30 PM, N4ZR wrote:
>
> S56A claimed to have operated a robot contester more than 20 years ago.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 12/17/2018 5:16 PM, Jamie WW3S wrote:
>> I think there already was a "robot" entry for a cw test several years 
>> ago....
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Hank Greeb
>> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 9:20 AM
>> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
>> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Robotic contest operating, why knot?
>>
>> Jim:
>>
>> Thanks for the compliment to my mental capacity.  It's is great to have
>> it acknowledged publicly.
>>
>> I've only seen FT8 working with an operator clicking and calling
>> stations, or having others call his station after he calls CQ.
>>
>> But, he, and several othres around SW Michigan say that the new version
>> of FT8 has already been set up as a robot, and can operate with the
>> control operator in another part of the shack doing other things.
>>
>> Again, I've not used either the original version nor the new version of
>> FT8, so my info is 2nd hand.
>>
>> However, the day is approaching when all functions of a RTTY, CW, PSK31,
>> FT8, etc. stations can and will be able to be controlled by robots.  At
>> that point we'll have a "Zero Operator", or as another operator prefers
>> "Sysop Control" category in contests.  Whether the people who set up the
>> contest will recognize such an entry, or relegate it to the bit bucket
>> or check log category is yet to be determined.
>>
>> /s/ The Idiot LID (as several others have said, and of which I freely 
>> admit)
>> 72/73 de n8xx Hg
>> QRP >99.44% of the time
>>
>> On 12/17/2018 8:23 AM, cq-contest-request at contesting.com wrote:
>>> Message: 2 Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 10:59:33 -0800 From: Jim Brown 
>>> <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com> To: cq-contest at contesting.com Subject: 
>>> Re: [CQ-Contest] Using FT8 in RTTY Contests Message-ID: 
>>> <15aa3189-11ae-c5e2-fa9f-8b880768ff60 at audiosystemsgroup.com> 
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 12/16/2018 
>>> 7:07 AM, Hank Greeb wrote:
>>>> One could always rig up several rigs to run FT-8 as a robot,
>>> Your ignorance of how FT8 works is showing.
>>>
>>> 73, Jim K9YC
>>>
>>
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