Joe Subich, W4TV-4 wrote: > > To call skimmer "assisted" is a farce. It completely twists the > definition of assisted which used to mean - assistance by another > person in making a QSO - and ignores more than 40 years in which > technology has replaced things often done by a "second operator." > > Not to me it isn't. Skimmer allows you to do something you couldn't do yourself which is to listen simultaneously on other frequencies to detect needed points and multipliers.
Other aids that have mentioned such as memory keyers or even computer decoding of the station you are working are not assistance because they don't allow you to do anything you couldn't do yourself, they are simply labour-saving devices that have no effect on the overall score of the competitor. I thought it had been ruled already that use of Skimmer counts as assistance? Perhaps that was just for the CQ contests. ----- Julian, G4ILO. K2 #392 K3 #222. * G4ILO's Shack - http://www.g4ilo.com * KComm - http://www.g4ilo.com/kcomm.html * KTune - http://www.g4ilo.com/ktune.html -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/For-you-Anti-Scopes-tp4583569p4603357.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
