I guess I am a little dense here, but what is the big difference between using
the internet to set up a contact and using your computer to find signals (CW
skimmer)? Both are using something besides you and your equipment to find
signals.
73s John AA5JG
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Duane - N9DG <n9dg@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:17:08 -0700 (PDT)
>
>--- On Wed, 6/18/08, Chet, N8RA <chetsubaccount@snet.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Chet, N8RA <chetsubaccount@snet.net>
>> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] VHF contesting ethics questions
>> To: "'Paul Kiesel'" <k7cw@yahoo.com>, "'VHF Contest Reflector'"
>> <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 12:16 PM
>> Hi Paul,
>> A ping jockey listing by station saying he is now on freq X
>> using modulation
>> Y now calling CQ is really a self-spot by that station.
>> That itself is
>> something not allowed for him by another rule I think, and
>> it is not
>> permitted for a person entering as a single op to connect
>> to that
>> assistance. This PJ spot is not really different than a
>> packet spot, isn't
>> it?
>
>I really do think that WSJT is a genuinely cool mode. However what has really
>kept me from really wanting to pursue it is the standard operating practice of
>real-time or near real-time Internet coordination of a majority of the QSO's
>done with it. In fact in general I'm just not a big fan of scheduling contacts
>at all. Which is also why EME (WSJT or otherwise) hasn't really tripped my
>trigger much either, there's just too much "scheduling" of Q's for it to
>intrigue me much.
>
>Now if WSJT was implemented in a CWSkimmer like configuration where it was
>watching a wide swath of spectrum for totally random (i.e. unscheduled)
>signals then I'd be all over it. I want it to be me and/or my equipment to
>find the signals through my own antennas on the band of interest. It's just
>not as sporting to me to look for someone because they told me that they were
>there. Too much like commercial game farm "hunting", ... and with some animals
>even tied up... Now some will argue that "running the bands" is tantamount to
>scheduled contacts as well, perhaps it is to a degree, but finding that other
>station to work at all in the first place (without using outside means or
>schedules) I think is the critical differentiator.
>
>Duane
>N9DG
>
>
>
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