.<\/strong> <\/span>“”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nReading what I’ve written previously, you might come to the erroneous conclusion that I think skimmer is bad. I don’t. I just think the rush to allow it in the ‘unassisted’ category is bad. The tool itself is inanimate. It is the ethics of thecategorizationof its use that I question. Read W4PA’s whole post. <\/p>\n
It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, makes messes in the grass like a duck….it’s a duck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The proof is in the pudding.<\/p>\n
In the grand scheme of contesting, I’m just an ankle biter, but when one of the Big Dawgs barks, it’s worth noting. W4PA posted some notes in his journal, dated 7\/14\/2008, that confirm every speculation made by folks who argue for making CW Skimmer fall into the “Assisted” category. Scott operated the IARU contest with CW Skimmer up and running(actually he used six).<\/p>\n
Quoting W4PA, (emphasis added is mine):<\/p>\n
“”Does it work? Absolutely.” “”It looks just like packet spotting”” “”The callsign quality was good, I’d say 90% of the calls spotted were correct“” “”The Skimmers also alerted me to the 10 meter opening in progress”” “”On 20 meters early on I had 600 available calls to be worked at one point spotted by the Skimmer”” “”Does it look and feel like packet? Definitely“” “”If I didn’t know what it was, I would have assumed I was looking at packet spots“” “”Is it different than unassisted traditional single op? Sure.”” “”Is it an advantage over unassisted single op? No question.”” “”It may even be better than packet, because it gives you ALL the callsigns for the whole band. “” <\/p>\n
Reading what I’ve written previously, you might come to the erroneous conclusion that I think skimmer is bad. I don’t. I just think the rush to allow it in the ‘unassisted’ category is bad. The tool itself is inanimate. It is the ethics of thecategorizationof its use that I question. Read W4PA’s whole post. <\/p>\n
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