You're misunderstanding my point, guys. I have no quarrel with people who choose not to use spots. What I was arguing is that for those who choose to use and make spots, there's an easy way to incre
Yes, which is exactly why N1MM, which has separate Run and S&P modes, doesn't spot anything worked while in Run mode. In practice it's pretty foolproof 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon
Happy to report that after forgetting entirely about this morning, I was still able to get a room at 12:30 PM EDT 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server at<http://beta.reve
Very well said, Jack. Can't find anything to say but "bravo!" 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server at<http://beta.reversebeacon.net>. For spots, please use your favorite
As many of you may be aware, the RBN uses CW Skimmer, and CW Skimmer uses what's called a pattern file to distinguish between legitimate callsigns and scraps of other CW communications. The files id
Kind of a mixed experience. My first Sprint in maybe 5 years, and I had real trouble getting into the rhythm of the thing. If it hadn't been for an N1MM+ message file with some built-in helps, I wo
I think this suggests that people should, in general, go ahead and work a caller who shows up as a dupe, because the chances are fairly good that your previous QSO didn't count, because he either mis
Hi Jim - your point, about not being sure whether the station transmitting is going to be expecting callers, is a good one of course, and initially helped me demonstrate just how rusty I was. I reme
Nonetheless, I have to wonder why anyone would boycott a particular QSO party because of its rules. Do you really care about your QSO party score, or do you get on for the fun of working people? I'
OK, I'll bite. I briefly operated CQWW SSB remotely at a friend's station yesterday, and was appalled by the small number of spots being generated. Take a look at DXSummit for W3LPL, who appears to
Well, yes and no. I, for one, find the endless routine of Tune - Find - Check - Dupe - Tune Again to be excruciating. This has nothing to do with the Contest reflector, and it may be strictly a fun
I'm prepared to believe that other contests are even worse, but is 50 spots in the last 12 hours (see DX Summit) for both running stations at W3LPL really a lot? 4 an hour? My point was that if you
On 10/30/2022 11:24 PM, Jim Brown wrote: I found only those two stations splattering. And there were the usual number of ego-driven lids who finished a QSO with "QRZ" instead of their call. I love K6
Jim, that's not the point - what I was saying is that when a loud big station is CQing continuously, but getting approximately 1 spot every 15 minutes, one can only imagine what happens to the non-"b
Just one comment - I suspect that a lot of those typos and mis-copies would be avoided if spots were being generated based on what people actually entered in their logs - on the theory that people a
I also think that the intent is very different from self-spotting -- the Skimmer op has no control over who gets spotted by his node. Testing some new station hardware, I have had my Skimmer runnin
This may sound a little off the wall, but I've heard of people using a strip of velcro or other adhesive to strap the footswitch to their shoe. A little inconvenient when you have to go, though 73,
Can someone tell me how to get in contact with this station, active this weekend in WAE RTTY? The station's QRZ entry lacks the Detail Page, which means that all of their spots on the RBN are being
Yes, it does. In 13 years working on the RBN, I have never seen a case where there WAS no Details page. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server at<https://reversebeacon.ne
The problem is that right now every spot of them is in Antarctica. They display as a set of vertical lines from each spotter, down to somewhere on the Antarctic continents where they all turn east o