It seems the only people now arguing that computer logging, auto-tune
amplifiers or the like should
constitute "assistance" are those arguing for the unfettered release of Skimmer
into the contesting
ethos.
It has always been clear, spelled out in many rules, that "assisted" classes
refer to those operators
receiving spotting information (callsigns and QRGs, not merely spikes on a
bandscope). There has never
been a mention of automation of the administrivia of contesting being
"assistance".
So to argue that to place Skimmer into "assisted" classes means that you must
also place any other
automated feature of a station into assisted is simply a red herring. The smart
readers of this forum
have not bought into that particular bit of seafood.
I am not anti-Skimmer: but I do not buy the argument that our forefathers
intended to restrict the
definition of assistance only to that information coming from other people.
Spots are spots.
73, kelly
ve4xt
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