In a word, YUCK! Neal WA6OCP K3/10/305
DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote: > > OK...here it is in a nutshell. > > 1. CW Skimmer will profoundly change serious-level contesting forever > > 2. Serious contesters use two radios at once (called SO2R or single > op, 2 radios). While they CQ on one band (using a memory > keyer...voice or cw), they TUNE a 2nd band, looking for additional > contacts, using their 2nd radio. This is very intense contesting and > require super-human concentration and skill to be really successful. > It means that you are constantly switching focus from the Radio A to > Radio B (the switching is automatic, controlled by the contest > software). > > 3. Currently, tuning the 2nd band is a manual process, requiring one > to (a) find stations between CQs on the other band, and (b) copy who > it is and (c) then decide if you need it or not and if you do, (d) > work it while not "losing" your "RUN" frequency (the first radio > frequency where you are CQing and working guys who answer your CQs). > > 4. With CW Skimmer, one no longer has to use their skill to (a) tune > the 2nd band and (b) figure out who it is. The computer does this for > you....and all at once for the whole band. > > 5. The entire basis for CONTESTING is competition...a competition of > who has the best set of HUMAN skills...skills at using their > equipment, but mostly skills at copying callsigns and working guys and > tuning a second radio and doing the same. With CW Skimmer, the > "second radio" skill is effectively eliminated. The computer does it > for you. This is VERY FAR from DSP, or a yagi, or an amp, or an > electronic keyer because. Those things made CHORES easier. This > thing makes the only human element left (tuning the band and finding > callsign) meaningless. It eliminates the HUMAN element. All you need > now is a clerk to "point and shoot" or "point and click" whatever you > want to call it. > > 6. With this "tool," a single op can now be SO6R and have a CW > SKimmer on every band. Someone will write a script so that > multipliers bubble up as found...and even non-mults, but new Q's, will > be easily flagged (and worked). YOu wont have to "waste" time tuning > and copying the callsign of stuff that you already worked. > > 7. CW decoders (such as included on Elecraft K3) only copy one > signal, which YOU tuned to. This thing does the whole band at once. > > 8. Yes, it is like an "automatic" packet/internet band-mapping tool, > except that use of those places one in the "Assisted" or "unlimited" > category, separate and apart from "single op all band." Under the > current rules for all contest, the addition of CW Skimmer will NOT > cause a change in category away from Single Op All Band to the > Assisted or Unlimited category. How could it? Nobody else is helping > you get the callsigns. > > 9. For many, especially those who feel that "packet ruined > contesting" or that "packet ruined DXing," this may turn out to be the > "packet ruined contesting" of the 21st century. As many have pointed > out (if you want to read A LOT on this, go to the CQ-Contest > Reflector: www.contesting.com ), with this "tool," there is > currently no way to tell if the guy has a 2nd op in the shack, is > using packet, or is using CW SKimmer. It makes adjudication a > nightmare (probably, impossible). > > 10. Serious SOAB contesters have long done everything possible to > keep their category separate and apart from packet/internet users. > They want to keep the category "pure." This will make that job very, > very difficult. > > Why keep it "out?" The same reason sailboat races do not allow > engines/motors. The same reason why the Daytona 500 does not allow > jet engines to be used. The same reason why people climb mountains > instead of taking a helicopter. The same reason why some folks only > Bow-Hunt. > > Sorry for the bandwidth, but there seems to be a fair about of > interest in this topic. > > Hope this helps paint a clearer picture. > > de Doug KR2Q > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: [email protected] > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/OT%3A-THIS-is-the-big-deal-about-CW-Skimmer-tp15326081p15326264.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
