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Re: [CQ-Contest] Skimmer

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Skimmer
From: K4RO Kirk Pickering <k4ro@k4ro.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:33:44 -0600
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:35:09AM -0500, Bill Tippett W4ZV wrote:
> Skimmer is pure hardware...no external help from other ops. 
> How could you disallow Skimmer (effectively gleaning spots
> like Packet) and yet allow SO2R?  Both are purely hardware,
> so why allow one and not the other?


Because the SO2R operator (or SO1R operator, for that matter)
has to TUNE the band and use his BRAIN and EARS to IDENTIFY 
signals on the air.  Is this really that difficult to grasp?  
Does ANYONE still tune and identify signals on their own anymore?

73

-Kirk  K4RO

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