[Elecraft] "Mechanical COntesting", was Elecraft CW Net Announc.

[Tom Hammond]

Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> From what I've seen of "readers" I agree. And my approach to finding out 
> was strictly a "tongue in cheek" suggestion because, if it did work on 
> someone, it'd do nothing but get in the way of someone's enjoyment by 
> slowing him/her down.
>
>But if I were into running up the highest possible contest scores, I'd be 
>tracking the automatic reading technology very closely. After all the 
>"name of the game" in a contest is contacts! I'm astonished at how well 
>software can read speech and turn it into text nowadays.
>
>Even so, we're a long time from the day a reader will equal a good pair of 
>ears on an experienced op, and so they'll always have an edge.

Just for the sake of conversation (on a now off-topic thread)...

A number of years ago (maybe 6-8 at least), Larry (Tree) Tyree (N6TR, 
author of TRLog), created and used a completely automated contest robot in 
one of the big contests. I think it was probably the SS. The robot, if I 
recall, did virtually everything (e.g. sending AND copying). It made a 
decent, if not winning, score.

73,

Tom   N0SS