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Re: [CQ-Contest] RBN high busted rate during WAE DX?

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] RBN high busted rate during WAE DX?
From: Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 17:53:42 -0400
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Hi Pedro - interesting data. I have a couple of possible explanations and one potential, at least partial solution.

Conditions were pretty mixed on Sunday, at least up here. There was some very rapid QSB. We know that most busts occur when a Morse character is truncated by one element, or in the case of characters like E, the whole character is lost. Do the busts of your call seem to fit this, or any, particular pattern?

The second hypothesis is that we had a very large number of nodes on during the contest. Since distribution of nodes is uneven (many in Europe and N America, few in the Southern Hemisphere), it is certainly possible that you were seeing each node'sinaccuracyof somewhere around one percent multiplied by many nodes, when you were being heard well in Europe or the US

Filtering at the node can help. I have been generally impressed by CT1BOH's algorithm for his skimbusted filter on ARCluster V6, although it is not infallible - sometimes it will mistake the bust for the real call. Another approach is simply to use ARCluster V6's unique>x filter, which doesn't "believe" a spot unless it is made more than x times. I don't know what VE7CC may use to deal with this.

Finally, let me confirm there was nothing going on with the RBN infrastructure. Our philosophy is to forward everything that our nodes copy, and let users filter as they will.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 8/11/2015 3:10 PM, Pedro Colla wrote:
Hi,
I'd observed during the contest that quite often my running frequency were 
reported as being ocuppied by me (LT7H) and by DT7H who seems to be a seldom 
used Italian callsign, but most likely a malformed capture of my callsign 
during the contest.
It happened either when I was called by scores of non-European fellows (perhaps looking 
for an Italian multiplicator), also when I turned off the "run" mode in N1MM+ 
and it showed outstanding the DT7H callsign in the same frequency.
Busted calls has always been an unavoidable feature of the RBN, which is a 
superb infrastructure resource for all of us, but the % of busted calls were 
relatively low and a manageable issue in my experience.
So, after the contest I'd used the raw data info to evaluate how bad was the 
problem and the results seems higher than I would have expected.
Sunday numbers were the worse, the distribution of the problem is:

Error(%)
   T%
0%
   8%
20%
   17%
40%
   8%
60%
   33%
80%
   17%
100%
   17%
This should be read as 8% of the hours of my Sunday participation (summarized by hour, or 1 hour) the RBN reported 0% busted calls, while 17% of the hours 100% of the reported were busted (this means during two hours of my participation I'd been reported as a busted call only). All in all 67% of the hours I participated on Sunday (8 hours) the busted reports of my call were 60% of the times or higher, about 2 every 3.
Saturday were a little bit at ease as about 1 in 3 times the reports were 
busted with a couple of hours were the reports were a busted calls about 3 out 
of 4 of the times.
I don't know if something special was going on with the RBN infrastructure 
previous or during the WAE, or the conditions were bad, or perhaps there was 
other factors.
Some fellow operators took the effort to post me correctly by hand after 
working me, saying that what was reported was wrong (deeple appreciated their 
kindness).
I wonder whether this has been noticed or experienced by other stations; in WAE 
being spotted with an Italian call might not be much of a problem, but in WW 
probably would be a bigger issue.
Thanks, Pedro LU7HZ

Dr. Pedro E. Colla
Va.Belgrano-Ciudad de Cordoba
Cordoba- Argentina
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