[TowerTalk] [CQ-Contest] WW Committee feared that some of the non-assisted hotshots w...

[Steve Dyer]

Because you run your *own* skimmer using your *own* antennas. You can 
completely disconnect the internet and it still works!
73,
Steve
W1SRD
>
> ... and just *how* is a copy of CW skimmer running on a computer
> connected to a receiver in an operator's own shack, not connected
> to the outside world 'using a second person for assistance'?
>
> Once you include "computer" in the shack any software running on
> that computer - as long as it has on connection to any computer
> outside the "station" - is an "enhancement for a single op to
> use".
>
> 73,
>
>    ... Joe, W4TV
>
>
> On 10/24/2013 2:11 PM, Cqtestk4xs at aol.com wrote:
>> Keyers, paddles, voice recorders, computer logging are enhancements  
>> for a
>> single op to use.  The others are using a second person for assistance.
>> That's the difference.
>>
>> Bill K4XS
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 10/24/2013 6:09:15 P.M. Coordinated Universal Tim,
>> w0mu at w0mu.com writes:
>>
>> What was  the exact time where it was just a operator and a radio?  
>> 1940,
>> 1950,  1960?  Was that before keyers, paddles, voice recorders, computer
>> logging, 2m spotting nets, telephones to call and make scheds, the mail
>> system?
>>
>> I have to wonder if the proponents for backwardness also  drive Model A
>> and Model T cars, use wood stoves and have no indoor  plumbing.
>>
>> The hobby is constantly changing and evolving and we continue to create
>> new technologies.  We don't shun advances in our daily  lives we should
>> we do so in Ham Radio?
>>
>>
>> Mike W0MU
>>
>> On  10/23/2013 3:02 PM, Joe wrote:
>>> Exactly. Like it was in Classic days before spotting systems came to 
>>> be.
>>>
>>> Joe WB9SBD
>>>   Sig
>>> The Original Rolling Ball Clock
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>>> On 10/23/2013 10:25 AM,  Radio K0HB wrote:
>>>> My understanding is that the "Classic" overlay  was intended as "a Boy
>>>> and his Radio" class.  Why would you  want to screw with that?
>>>>
>>>> 73, de Hans,  K0HB
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message----- From: Pete Smith  N4ZR
>>>>
>>>> I would just add one point.  I've been told  that the 1 radio no 
>>>> spotting
>>>> caveats were added because some folks  on the CQ Committee were 
>>>> concerned
>>>> that non-assisted hot-shots  would drop down to the 24-hour overlay
>>>> unless these things were  outlawed.  I frankly doubt this, 
>>>> particularly
>>>> with respect to  the assisted/non-assisted angle.  However, instead of
>>>> sitting  on the sidelines, it is important that supporters of the 
>>>> 24-hour
>>>>   category enter it this year, so that we can credibly make the  
>>>> argument
>>>> for loosening that restriction next  time.
>>>>
>>>>
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