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

[Peter Hobbs]

Hi Paul

So I'm not allowed to use an automatic CW decoder??  I can recall working a 
fully automatic KH6IJ back in the late 1950's.  SD encourages you to operate 
CW as a data mode in the TX direction, so why not the other way around?  And 
what about my hand-crafted master.dta file - another time saver?  Surely any 
arrangement of my station that I may care to make is my business, as long as 
I don't receive real-time help from others . . .

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy copying CW as much as any, but I'm one of the 
Old F***s and we really shouldn't close our eyes (or ears!) to new ways of 
doing things (or are they so new? - morse undulators* were widely used 
during WWII)

73
Peter G3LET

* for those of more recent vintage, an undulator is a bit like a telegram, 
except the paper is inked by a solenoid driven pen, coupled to the 
(rectified) receiver audio output.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul O'Kane" <pokane at ei5di.com>
To: "UK Contest Reflector" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Re Skimmer - was QTC in WAEDC RTTY


> ----- 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
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