I see this as a very nice toy. But at the end of the day, there always will be boys and their radios.
Paul, you've been on 7 DX-peditions and you never used skimmer. I worked at least 500 DX-peditions so far, and never spotted unpredictable behavior of running station, no matter is there an expert or novice on the other side. There is always a pattern. Reading calls from the screen and jumping up and down because of that hardly can be recognized as pattern.
Besides, once you found yourself on the "dark side of pile up" there is no way that you will let some skimmer-robot-mambo-jumbo to handle your joy. No way!

I sent 2 letters to Apollo.
First time with 2 USD and SAE - no reply.
Second time with 3 USD and SAE - got reply in about 4 weeks, for the #307

Hi Rich,

Is there any example of this in current DXCC list?
Work now, count in the future?

Thanks,
Dragan, 4O4A

Yes, they can.
LoTW today: Fatal error: initializeLOTWDB: -1003 - Too many buffers requested: General database error [initializeLOTWDB: -1003 - Too many buffers requested]

Interesting theory. That means, ATM, that those guys from ZL9 are probably the BBS-est guys around?
I remember another theory from one guy who claimed 70 years ago that guys with blue eyes and blond hair are more superior than others...
Stupid people don't have geographic latitude, longitude, nationality... they are, simple as that, stupid.

Greetings from South Europe

Dragan, 4O4A

John, I'm often "on the other side" of pile up. Believe me, signal strength is probably the last thing that makes me (and some others I talked to) reply to somebody. Especially if big signal is from ABC1BCA when I ask "ZYX?"

When chasing somebody, I agree what others said here. The most important is to find a pattern. What most people do? While TXing "TU XXX3ZZZ UP2" they are rotating their RX VFO knob. But not on SSB -- no one wants to listen Donald Duck voices.
Catch 22 is to find The Pattern.

For CW - don't be in zero beat. For SSB and RTTY - be on it.
And never be ABC1BCA.

Dragan, 4O4A

Chris, thanks for your efforts and thanks to whole team down there. I hope they will stay safe and have a safe trip back home.

With all those terrorists on their TX frequency it would be good if team can pay attention on how pile up is responding: if things are not going smoothly that usually means that somebody is jamming TX frequency. Tell the guys simply to move 300-500 kHz up or down. T30PY team did great job with that, making any intentional QRMing meaningless.

Rather unusual approach with frequent change of calling areas (Asia, Pac, JA, etc...) but, hey, at least nobody can say that they didn't give a chance to everybody and my compliments for that.

Yes, it seems that conditions are in favor of NA, at least here in South East Europe.
However, it is possible to work them even from stamp size backyard and appropriate antennas.
The best signal is on 15M, very good on 40M, surprisingly quiet on 20M.