[Skimmertalk] Archive?

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> Such a category would exclude operating aids such as CW 
> decoders, SCP, and similar means of determining the 
> callsigns of others stations.

I applaud the elimination of SCP, history files and the like. 
However, since the regulatory agencies have decided that the 
ability to copy CW by ear is no longer a license requirement 
and it is no longer a requirement for operating CW, I do not 
see how any contest sponsor - either a for profit corporation 
like CQ or a "non-profit" like ARRL - can possibly disallow 
the use of CW decoders in any category.  

Whether anyone likes it, the regulatory change requires that 
CW decoders be treated the same as "copy by ear."  That does 
not mean that accuracy requirements (busted calls) should be 
relaxed.  However, excluding CW decoders from the single 
operator class (or creating a separate class for "decoder 
assisted operators") is simply another form of "no code 
discrimination" like attitudes that treated Technician 
licensees  ("six meter lids") as second class licensees years 
ago. 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: skimmertalk-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:skimmertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of K0HB 
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 3:32 PM
> To: W4TV Joe Subich; skimmertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Skimmertalk] Archive?
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > If I connect a CW decoder to each of those 17 receivers where
> > is the "assistance?"  
> >
> 
> The "assistance" is the CW decoder.
> 
> I submit that there ought to be a "classic" category in CW 
> contesting in
> which only a single human operator decodes the Morse signals, and
> consequently the most skilled operators in that category 
> would have the
> best chances of winning.  If they were skilled enough to 
> simultaneously
> decode signals by ear from 17 receivers, then they should win over the
> operators whose skill was only sufficient to simultaneously 
> decode signals
> from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16 
> receivers. 
> Diana Moon Glompers would hate such a category!
> 
> Such a category would exclude operating aids such as CW 
> decoders, SCP, and
> similar means of determining the callsigns of others stations.
> 
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
> Just a boy and his (17) radios
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