[Elecraft] For you Anti-Scopes

[k3bu at optimum.net]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian, G4ILO" 
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010 11:24 am
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] For you Anti-Scopes
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net

> 
> 
> 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.
> 

Not true, I can listen and scan other frequencies with second radio while CQing on the first one. I can use panadapter to watch for band openings and tune to the signals. In more crude form you can use scanning and CW decoder to "hunt". Skimmer just takes it to another level, just like computer logging to paper logging.

The key here is ASSISTANCE by other persons via other means. Not the gadget and software in my shack, that is tool just like anything else in my shack. 
Ruling by CQ CC to put skimmer into assisted is the dumbest and contrary to logic.

Yuri, K3BU.us

> 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.
> 
> Julian, G4ILO