At 0900Z on Wednesday, the RBN server team will begin a brief planned outage of the RBN's web site. Over the next 3-7 hours, they will install significant new back end components for the RBN server,
What would be even more interesting is to know what physical setup they were using - I'm sort of betting on a multi-multi (at least 6 transmitters) with interlocks to stay within the rules for multi-
Anyone have an extra room at the Crowne Plaza for CTU through Saturday night of the Dayton /Xenia hamvention? Please drop me a note and I'll arrange to take it off your hands. -- 73, Pete N4ZR Check
I may be the last contester on the planet to discover this, but Audacity offers some truly incredible capabilities for our purposes. Most folks are probably aware that you can use it to normalize al
I worked one too, with a strong signal. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now spotting RTTY activity worldwide. For spots, please use your favorite "re
Damn, we were smart back then. What happened? 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now spotting RTTY activity worldwide. For spots, please use your favor
This may be old news to many of us, but VE3NEA's CW Skimmer Server determines how "skeptical" to be about a callsign, based on a file of all expected callsign patterns. This assessment in turn affect
VC#@ is already flagged in the file as a common prefix. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now spotting RTTY activity worldwide. For spots, please use y
As some may be aware, weve been debating for some time about whether the RBN should handle FT8 spots. A few weeks, ago, several prolific RBN nodes began spotting FT8 signals, using the combination o
Sorry, but I don't agree, Hans. The current arrangement of one FT8 dial frequency per band will not survive the first big DXpedition or, perhaps, even Field Day. You'll need to know who's where, ju
The RBN applies the same standard to FT8 as to CW and RTTY - only CQ (equivalent) spots and only re-spotting once every 10 minutes on a given dial frequency. However, as our first tests indicate, th
As has been pointed out, there is some risk that the WRTC organizers will decide to use a format for the special callsigns of WRTC competitors that is outside the scope of the current 3-character pat
The WRTC organizers have just announced that the WRTC competitors will all use callsigns in the format Y8#@, where "#" is a single digit and "@" is a single letter. The calls actually to be issued w
Judging by the commentary recently on various reflectors (and my own experience last weekend), it is time for NAQP to institute an Assisted category, rather than lumping all one-transmitter assisted
I think this is being made a lot more complicated than it needs to be. What's wrong with Single Op, SO Assisted, Multi-Single and Multi-multi (the latter two both assisted)?. There are more than a
Google Maps has managed to break the mapping function of the RBN website with code changes related to their new pricing algorithm. Worse yet, it also broke the callsign display and search functions.
I've been reading some interesting stuff on contesters using relatively inexpensive Bluetooth noise cancelling headphones. I've also noticed that some of these headsets have single or dual microphon
I totally agree. An added fillip - it is extremely likely that cluster spots on CW will not be in zero beat with the CQing station, because of rounding to the nearest 100 Hz division. The only thin
Stan, it seems to me that you lost one step in your description - decoding/understanding the transmission with your ears and your brain. To me, that is a "bright line." At the point where the operat
S56A claimed to have operated a robot contester more than 20 years ago. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now spotting RTTY activity worldwide. For spo