By design, the reverse beacon network that is currently operating (http://skimmer.dxwatch.com) only posts CQers. This choice was made because of concern that the volume of spots would be overwhelming
Author: Michael Höding <hoeding@fh-brandenburg.de>
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:30:41 +0200
Hi folks, of course feeding skimmer spots into the world wide packet network is easly possible. However the flood will cause big problems for every user of clusters. Therefore there is no reason to d
One good thing I see about Skimmer is that it will show you whay YOU can work NOW. Packet spots from EU are usually worthless to me and sometimes packet spots from east or west USA are also worthless
That's what filters are for. I may miss something from time to time, but I only see the spots from zones 4 and 5. Barry W2UP -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Newtown, PA ________________________________________
I think that is a great thing - with Skimmer generated packet spots you can eliminate the problem of spot inequity. Perhaps with enough Skimmers feeding the packet system from enough different locati