There are different ways to skimmer the cat and some of them do not require
voice recognition technology. It is entirely possible that each transmitter and
amplifier produce a unique RF fingerprint that can reliably be used to identify
the station. Think of it as the equivalent of the call history feature in
loggers. The first time you hear a station you do the call sign decoding
yourself and for the rest of the contest that unique fingerprint of what you
just copied could be used to populate the bandmap and the call history. Same
concept of course applies to CW and RTTY. As a by product you gain the
opportunity to identify fake callers.
This of course is just an example. When you focus on the outcome rather than
the means of accomplishing the outcome the number of solutions goes up.
Rudy N2WQ
From: K4XS via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2015 6:29 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contesting Technology - Phone Skimmer Nears Beta Test
On the SSB skimmers. It will really be interesting if a voice skimmer can
decipher what I can't...nasty overmodulated, fuzzy crappy audio that seems
to be the new vogue for SSB. Randy said it right, far too many stations
with nasty audio out there.
Jim has it right on the money. Listen to your audio, not with the monitor
(although that helps). Use a second rx. If you don't have one, borrow
one. Transmit into a dummy load. Don't have a dummy load, then go up on 10
meters transmit with .1 watts late in the evening and adjust, adjust,
adjust. Then listen, listen and listen. This is a foolproof way to have good
audio.
I'm not a big fan of having someone listen to the audio since everyone has
a different preference for what they consider good audio. Some like a
nice smooth FM-radio sound and others like a clean punchy audio.
When you're on the air in non-contest situations you'll know if you have
good audio. You'll get non-solicited comments either pro or con.
As for the settings, I run my K-3 in the general range of what K9YC does.
K4XS/KH7XS
In a message dated 4/4/2015 4:16:35 A.M. Coordinated Universal Time,
k5zd@charter.net writes:
PLEASE -- the next time you are setting up for a SSB contest, either
> listen to your own audio on another rig or get another ham to listen
> critically to your audio.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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