Scamp busy detector "as used in Scamp at the time of the group testing" I was part of, was NOT the end all of busy detectors. Finding a setting of the threshold was very difficult. Too sensitive and the throughput operation of Scamp was poor due to being held up by the threshold trigger. Not sensitive enough and it did not perform at times when you knew it should have. What worked for one type of band condition for awhile, did not work well during a different type of band condition.
Personally witnessed operators that would intentionally come on frequency and put out signals solely for the purpose of triggering the busy detector to stop operations. When Scamp operations were not active, they didnt seem to be active on the frequency. Start Scamp activity and some of the same lids would start up again with just enough activity to activate the busy detector. End result was the agreement to not use it as it was not living up to expectations .... and stayed that way through the shut down of the group by the author. 73 from Bill - WD8ARZ
