[Elecraft] K3 Coarse Tuning

[David Gilbert]

It isn't the frequency hopping that flags the log checkers.  It's 
frequency hopping that matches the timing and frequencies of spots 
showing up on the clusters, or matching the timing of new stations on 
the band such as would be displayed by CW Skimmer.  You'd be pretty 
unlikely to match any of those patterns by simply changing frequency on 
your own no matter how often you did it.

73,
Dave   AB7E



Julian, G4ILO wrote:
> This is going OT a little, but I was reading an article in the latest CQ to
> arrive here about how some contest logs are being disqualified for using
> assistance (e.g. DX Cluster or CW Skimmer) in an unassisted category. The
> article appeared to be saying: "don't try to do this, we can tell." Which
> made me wonder: "how?"
>
> If contest adjudicators can spot undeclared use of the cluster because a log
> contains sudden jumps of frequency to work a DX station, isn't there a risk
> that use of a bandmap by an unassisted station could be wrongly detected as
> use of the cluster and result in disqualification?
>
>