[CQ-Contest] Past Prediction of the Future of Contesting.

[ktfrog007 at aol.com]

As voice skimmers will be difficult to implement here are some ideas to get us started, from my addled brain on insomnia and caffeine:

1) Adjust your transmitter for the most intelligible audio for your voice. Practice your enunciation.  Record and listen to your transmissions (maybe you and a local buddy can help each other).  Resist maxxing out the controls.

2) Implement sub-audible codes giving the call.  Quick and dirty approach.


3)  Register your voice with the skimmer so the skimmer can recognize it. Say your call and exchange just as you would in the contest.  Works with a voice keyer, too.

4) Voice keyer libraries of high quality, professional speaking voices with clear enunciation while talking at 90 mph.

5) Come up with a better set of phonetics, or special phonetic alphabets for various accents. Made up words might be more intelligible in some cases than real words.

6) Get a neural network AI machine and let it train itself, copying off the air and correlating with manual cluster spots as well as letting it draw its own conclusions. It can submit a special SWL log to WWORF for an LCR, then go back and reprocess a recording of the contest and submit again.  Rinse and repeat.  Do more contests until it gets really good.


7) Invent new digital voice modes (sayonara SSB). Just grab the digital data and throw it on the skimmer.

73,
Ken, AB1J


-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Brakob <kzerohb at gmail.com>
To: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w at gmail.com>; Frank Donovan W3LPL (Frank Donovan W3LPL) <donovanf at erols.com>
Cc: reflector cq-contest <CQ-Contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Fri, Aug 20, 2021 11:55 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Past Prediction of the Future of Contesting.

Please, no, a thousand times NO!

73, de Hans, KØHB
“Just a Boy and his Radio”™
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From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+kzerohb=gmail.com at contesting.com> on behalf of Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2021 7:25:35 AM
To: Frank Donovan W3LPL (Frank Donovan W3LPL) <donovanf at erols.com>
Cc: reflector cq-contest <CQ-Contest at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Past Prediction of the Future of Contesting.

I guess the logical follow-up is what's next:

I vote for voice "skimmer"...

73 Rich NN3W

On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 8:18 AM <donovanf at erols.com> wrote:

> Thanks for sharing this Pete.
>
>
> Many of the forecasts proved to be accurate, but as often happens
> with forecasts , two of the most revolutionary changes that have
> greatly impacted contesting were totally unanticipated:
>
>
> - CW Skimmer and its associated Reverse Beacon Network, and
> - Explosive growth in the use of digital error correcting protocols,
> especially FT8
>
>
> "It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future" – Yogi Berra
>
> 73
> Frank
> W3LPL
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Pete Smith N4ZR" <pete.n4zr at gmail.com>
> To: "reflector cq-contest" <CQ-Contest at Contesting.COM>
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2021 2:17:22 AM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Past Prediction of the Future of Contesting.
>
> In 2007, ES5TV compiled reflector users' predictions/guesses/wild-ass
> guesses about what contesting would look like ten years hence. It's now
> 4 years past his original time horizon, and I thought people would find
> it interesting, so I've put it in my Dropbox account at
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/uzpj6vhxuqtp6sf/10%20years%20later.pdf?dl=0
> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/uzpj6vhxuqtp6sf/10%20years%20later.pdf?dl=0>.
> Feel free to download the pdf and giggle...
>
> --
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
> web server at <http://beta.reversebeacon.net>.
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
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