I gathered manual (non-reversebeacon) spots from 9 Telnet cluster nodes around the world over the 48-hour ARRL DX CW 2024 contest, deduped them, and counted self-spots to see how widely self-spotting
You should do this test in a Phone contest. I bet the results would be very different. In a CW test I do not see any need to self spot at all. I mean each CQ most likely will be caught by the RBN, an
Joe (WB9SBD) I thought same as you, but I tried to do selfspot and found how much it helps. Not very much old fashioned dudies using RBN telnet spots. They just looking to DX summit :) Really! Sam LY
Yes, there is a need for self spot. Not everyone uses a skimmer based cluster or has skimmer turned off. Or there are stations that call CQ in a manner that isn't picked up by skimmers. Therefore, so
I will echo that, as soon as I started running, I could see I was spotted by RBN in the INFO window of N1MM......and got some callers....BUT.....when I got a manual spot on the old school network, it
Hi there !! No self-spots here, no DX-Summit, no cluster, no-assisted. And was fine to me. Ok, now we have the SSB portion, and will be different. I don't know if I will keep myself out of the world,
I disagree. We self-spotted at N0AX, and I didn't really start using it until Sunday afternoon local time, when things started to dry up while running. I self-spotted about every 15 minutes, and each
Hi Jamie, I apologize, but know nothing about spotting, at all. What is the difference between RBN and "Old School Network"? I am familiar with RBN because I use it to check my signal strength when c
**FULL DISCLOSURE** I am far from what most would consider an expert......this is what works for me.... well, the old school, as I call it it, is no skimmer or rbn spots......just humans posting what
Hi Barry - the difference is that the traditional cluster network relied on spots sent manually by individual stations also connected to a cluster. The RBN, on the other hand, is over 200 nodes worl