About half of the problems with Skimmer (aside from taking away certain operator skills - not a trivial issue) has to do with allowing Skimmer/SDR to be accessed remotely. A SDR is a receiver and, if
So as I understand it a computer can encode CW but is banned from decoding it. Where is the line drawn with calling CQ? If we are consistent, then the computer should be banned from encoding and deco
the If this is one of those "either/or" deals, then I could agree to this quicker than I could agree to "Skimmer isn't assistance". 73, de Hans, K0HB -- Observation the morning after the contest: "A
not going to happen... in fact, some nodes are now offering skimmer spots to local users. It won't be long before we get the filters a bit better and they will be loose in the world wide network and
Stan, The only use of skimmer technology I have ever supported is with the receiver in the "magic circle." If the automatically derived spots are ported to or delivered by packet, internet, etc. they
Yes - precisely. How CW is sent is immaterial so long as it is decoded by ear. As Ward N0AX said - "Dealing with automated reception differently than automated transmission is appropriate because onl
On the packet network the other sysops would instantly cut the node off as the spots would be worthless and clog the network. The purpose of the cluster network is to find stations that are cq'ing.