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

[Jukka Klemola]

There may be people who have not worked Marconi, IY4M, on ten.

It was a CW robot.
30 years ago.

Maybe it is still there, I do not know.


73,
Jukka OH6LI


ti 18. jouluk. 2018 klo 14.28 Hank Greeb (n8xx at arrl.org) kirjoitti:

> 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
> > Check out the Reverse Beacon Network
> > at<http://reversebeacon.net>, now
> > spotting RTTY activity worldwide.
> > For spots, please use your favorite
> > "retail" DX cluster.
> > 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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