Be sure that is NOT how cheaters proceed. They turn on the cluster probably in a different PC via remote desktop in some distant country or QTH, even in their smart phones. The still manually scan th
That's true Tor. I tried to explain that and considering Skimmer spots are produced for the same stations on a given QRG every three minutes or so I guess (on each skimmer server) and given the fact
How do you make contesting more attractive to little guns and casual participants? QSO/QSY How do you reduce geographical advantage a whole lot? QSO/QSY How do you eliminate the need for assisted cat
Big big mistake by WRTC committee. But well, they rule the game. There are creepy situations about this. Too sad. 73. Martin, LU5DX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
Howdy Stan. Thanks for your note. Actually it is quite complex for me to explain well since I need to translate my thoughts from Spanish to English and most of the time I'm pretty sure I end up not s
I'm glad to see Lucas won this new award which involves SSB/CW and RTTY! Plaques are good. But to some extent, in some cases they don't represent much. You have $$$$, can buy/rent a spot in some stra
Yup. It is pretty easy to get rid of busted calls in the RBN. The RBN should allow for feedback from humans, so that you could send the information about a busted call, RBN would propagate it to the
I see the RBN Raw data shows 3,937,110 spots for the 2013 ARRL INT'L CW. There are 32634 unique calls. I've the list with counts. Anyone with time to do the analysis, please let me know and I'll prov
Hi Bob. If you are willing to do the analysis, I can provide you the mdb, or plain text file with all the callsings spotted and counts for each of them. I don't think anyone is supposed to defend the
Wow Valery. The addition of skimmer spots is really awesome. I can compare stations in two or more separate browser tabs and see the diferences in rate and spots. Super cool. Thx much. Martin, LU5DX
Hi Tree. Well...That is your interpretation of the rule. LU4AA has been entering the contest using the same callsign scheme since 2007 upon agreement with the organizers. To me: 10 M CW is one freque
Thank you so much John for your note. We'll find a way out here in LU-land for next year's IARU HF Championship. Vy 73. Martin, LU5DX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailin
I guess no stations can call CQ on alternate frequencies on the same band now (MS/M2/MM)... Vy 73. Martin, LU5DX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@con
Hi Igor. That's true. It may be a point that needs further clarification in the contest rules. Vy 73. Martin, LU5DX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@
Not saying that preventing MS/M2/MM from alternating CQ is a bad thing at all. I fully agree with the rule. I was just saying that no stations are supposed to dual CQ on the same band, eliminating th
At the RBN database server seems to be the right choice. There is where the highest volume of data resides. I'm pretty sure the RBDMS being used gives all the robustness needed. No noticeable delays
Not to the extent the rules prohibit its use. You are not using it for QSO alerting purposes. In this case you are using it as a real time HF propagation monitoring tool. If that type of use is not a
Precisely. The rule is really clear about the use those tools are not meant to be used for. The use of the RBN in this case is specifically included under VIII. Monitoring one's own signal has nothin
Nothing new to your original email, you continue to say RBN is prohibited for SO and I continue to say it is only prohibited for QSO alerting assistance inside of VIII. The fact that the rule says no