[Skimmertalk] Skimmer use places op in Assisted category for CQWW

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

I hope the CQWW Committee has the balls to apply the 
same standard to CQ decoders and duplex receivers of 
all kinds - including the decoder built into WriteLog 
(not that I'm picking on WriteLog) and duplex receivers 
when used for SO2R.  

To discriminate against a CW decoder or duplex receivers 
when used to search for new stations to work but not when 
the same technology is used with the operator's hand on 
the knob is complete BULLSHIT and completely cowardly. 

If the same standard had been applied 25 years ago, 
radio sport would not have computer logging, memory 
keyers, voice keyers, SO2R, auto-tune amplifiers and 
many of the other tools most serious operators expect. 

This decision is nothing but gutless capitulation to 
the same kind of unthinking, anti-change mob mentality 
that has resulted in witch trials, the Inquisition and 
fuels radical Islam today.     


> -----Original Message-----
> From: skimmertalk-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:skimmertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of B. 
> Scott Andersen
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 1:28 PM
> To: skimmertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: [Skimmertalk] Skimmer use places op in Assisted 
> category for CQWW
> 
> 
> Though this list appears to be winding down, I thought I
> would point out for the record that this text now appears
> in CQWW rules:
> 
> A. Single Operator categories: For
> all single operator categories, only one
> person (the operator) can contribute to
> the final score during the official contest
> period. QSO alerting assistance
> of any kind (this includes, but is not
> limited to, packet, local or remote
> Skimmer and/or Skimmer-like technology,
> Internet) places the entrant
> in the Single Operator Assisted category.
> 
> -- Scott (NE1RD)
> 
> B. Scott Andersen           | "Magic is real, unless declared 
> integer."
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> 
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