[UK-CONTEST] CW Skimmer

[Dave Sergeant]

On 1 May 2008 at 22:34, G3SXW wrote:

> This petition recommends banning CW Skimmer altogether. Daft! Instead
> let's have a category called 'Unlimited' where all modern tools are
> encouraged. So long as the pure Single-Op category is preserved then
> it will always be by far the most popular. 73 de Roger/G3SXW.

I would tend to agree with Roger. Having had a little play with 
CWSkimmer a few weeks ago I was singularly unimpressed and despite 
the glowing article in RadCom see it just as a gimmick, quite limited 
in its capabilities compared with what a good CW operator can do. Its 
possible effects on contests have been grossly over-rated - it may be 
that a few (very few) entrants will be unable to maintain their 
leading scores and overtaken by skimmer ops, but by and large all it 
will do is attract new entrants, way down the table (like me...) who 
would not normally have had the ability or inclination to have a go 
in these events.

A petition in this case seems inappropriate. Just let it run for a 
year or two then people will realise it is an application which has 
no potential and it will quietly disappear.

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com