One very low-cost way to get your feet wet is to buy a Softrock receiver
($21 kit) crystalled for your Transceiver's IF output (assuming you have
one) and run it with RTTY Skimmer. Alternatively, you can connect to a
DX cluster that carrie Skimmer spots and use a combination of filters to
get spots only from Skimmers that are likely to have the same
propagation as you do.
73, Pete N4ZR
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For spots, please use your favorite
"retail" DX cluster.
On 3/21/2016 7:52 PM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
Do a lot of you use the RBN or some other source of skimmer "spots"?
I ask because I found during the BARTG that almost as soon as I started running a
frequency I was handling a small pileup that would last for maybe 10 minutes and
then be over. Yet I found no spots for my call sign when I checked the traditional
clusters during slow periods. I don't normally run assisted except during the CW
& SSB SS or unless I know that a needed DX will be an entry in a contest. My
approach to contesting is usually pretty laid back and I like twirling the big knob
or dozing off while calling CQ ;^). I wonder if I'm missing something?
Is anyone using an SDR to gather their own skimmer spots? I've been looking
for an excuse to buy an SDR receiver and wonder if this might be a good one.
Al
AB2ZY
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