[Skimmertalk] placing calls on skimmer display from external source?

[Pete Smith]

Alex isn't a contester, so I'm not surprised he has resisted.  If such a 
capability were available for self-spots of stations you've already 
worked, and wasn't decoding any callsigns, I can't see how that would 
subvert the rules.  On the other hand, blind spotting *would*, because 
it would be determining which traces on the bandmap were running, which 
requires decoding ...

73, Pete N4ZR

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On 12/20/2010 7:30 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
> I suggested exactly that to Alex a few months ago and he replied that he
> couldn't imagine why anyone would want something like that.  I told him
> I'd try to sample other opinion on that so I posted the idea to this
> reflector asking for comments and got no replies at all except for one
> private (favorable) comment.
>
> Then I posted a query to the CQ-Contest reflector asking whether it
> would be possible (for unassisted operation) to have N1MM display telnet
> spots from CW Skimmer on the N1MM bandmaps but for N1MM to blank the
> callsign ... that immediately got me publicly accused by K5ZD, K7ZD, and
> a couple of others as "trying to subvert the rules".
>
> I still think it would be a desirable capability but my experience
> trying to drum up support for it has been considerably less than favorable.
>
> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
>
>
>
> On 12/20/2010 4:10 PM, Steve London wrote:
>> Another possibility for VE3NEA to consider is reporting blind spots to the
>> Skimmer telnet interface...something like:
>>
>> DX de SKIMMER: 14020.1 BLIND
>>
>> Combine that with a yet-to-be developed N1MM feature that would only write the
>> BLIND spot to the N1MM bandmap if there wasn't already a valid callsign on the
>> bandmap on the Skimmer-reported frequency.
>>
>> 73,
>> Steve, N2IC
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