Sure, there were some anomalies, and for some reason W3LPL seemed to be
especially susceptible. I saw them regularly spotted as LW3LPL and also
M3LPL, I believe.
K1AR was also mis-spotted, but I think that might have been John's pals
having fun. :-)
I noticed NP4G spotted as NP4GN, but I worked him and understood why -- he
would sometimes send his call twice and run them together.
But overall, I was actually pretty impressed with the accuracy. It seemed a
pretty significant improvement over human-entered spots.
I'm afraid, however, that Skimmer spots are exacerbating the zero beat
pileup problems K6VVA wrote about. Human ops won't always have a station
perfectly tuned when they spot so multiple spotters could spread the pile
out a bit. Skimmers, on the other hand, should precisely report the
frequency. Maybe Skimmer could a minor, random frequency offset option.
Robert K5PI
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[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Barry
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 6:38 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] More busted calls in RBN than human spots?
Got my first taste of the RBN at K0RF this weekend. Maybe K1TTT can do
an analysis, but it seemed that the Skimmer missed lots of dits at the
beginning of calls, as well as picking up stray letters. My favorite
call was that M/M from Argentina, LW3LPL :.)
Barry W2UP
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Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO
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