[UK-CONTEST] Re Skimmer - was QTC in WAEDC RTTY

[Paul O'Kane]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Hobbs" <peter at tilgate.co.uk>

> ... but I've never understood the hang-up over Skimmer
> anyway.  It's a single op using *another* fancy radio.
> No different in principle to SO2R or a spectrum display.

Sorry, can't go along with that :-)

It's one thing having a spectrum display, or a second radio,
showing you where there are other CW signals, but it's another
thing entirely when they are identified in advance.

Skimmer decodes multiple CW signals in real time.  In effect,
the use of Skimmer moves CW closer to "just another data mode"
- as does any CW decoder.

What's the difference between CW and "just another data
mode"?  Copying by ear.

73,
Paul EI5DI