[VHFcontesting] VHF contesting ethics questions

[John AA5JG]

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From: Duane - N9DG <n9dg at yahoo.com>
>And number 2 (CWSkimmer) is the same way that stations to work were discovered 70 years ago (i.e. just an operator and his/her *own* equipment exclusively extracting information about stations to work by "listening" to the band of interest).


But 70 years ago you listened to the band yourself and tuned the radio yourself finding the stations to work. There were no computers involved. It was just you and your equipment. If I understand it correctly, doesn't CW skimmer tune the band for you, decode the CW, and print it out on the screen by station and frequency?  We may have done that with paper and pencil 70 years ago, but the tuning and decoding was done by the operator, not by the computer.

73s John AA5JG 

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