[OKDXA] CW Skimmer

[John AA5JG]

Based on yesterday's postings about the contesting advisory committee's decisions, I have a couple of questions about CW skimmer.  I have seen it talked about alot, but never really checked into it-nor will I.  

I am guessing that you set it up to tuner over a band segment, say from 14.000 to 14.075, and it will tune the rig up and down looking for signals, correct?

Now, given that CW takes a little while to copy a whole callsign, doesn't this take a long time?  I could see it taking a couple of minutes at least-that doesn't seem very efficient to do in a contest unless you are doing SO2R and using skimmer on the multiplier radio to spot new stations.

Am I all correct in my thinking?

73s John AA5JG 

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