Today I replaced the Skimmer software with a new version that permits you to select whether to forward all spots to Telnet, or just the ones that the software identifies as calling CQ. Depending on c
The fun for a serious DXpedtion IS to manage big pileups, not to run lists with a "master of ceremony" 73 Peter In "spot everything mode, it reports every station it hears - you can imagine how usefu
N4ZR: In "spot everything mode, it reports every station it hears - you can imagine how useful this would be for a DXpedition station managing a big pileup. There are two potential problems: wrong ca
Pete Sure, fantastic software indeed, and you are demonstrating what it is capable of. Perhaps the most profound implication is that it can render the use of DX clusters irrelevant, and therefore - a
The logging program automatically integrates calls and frequencies into the band map as itīs reading the Telnet messages 73 Peter However , what I don't quite see is how the average Joe, or even the
Hi Clive - the spots I'm making available on the Internet are generated by a US$13 (that's right, $13, in kit form) 20M SoftRock SDR taking its antenna feed from the RX antenna loop of my second radi
Pete, Can this be fed into a regular packet cluster? Bill, W5VX Hi Clive - the spots I'm making available on the Internet are generated by a US$13 (that's right, $13, in kit form) 20M SoftRock SDR ta
Now THAT would be a real zoo! You could of course do it with my wintelnetx spot sucker program. It can translate from user side spots (DX de ...) into either backbone(pcxx^...) or user sent spots (dx
Pete, Where are you getting the 20M SoftRock SDR kits from? I went looking online this morning (we were discussing projects this morning at the first meeting of the new WPA QRP Club) and I didn't com
I was just thinking that something like this could do away with the self spotting stuff that seems to have everyone in an uproar. Just start up several of these in different areas of the country and
Keep in mind, this is a first beta. Issues like how to integrate with, or stand up a separate network for, CW Skimmers are still a ways down the road. The idea of identifying spots by the owner of th
The grid square location of the skimmer in the comment field would yield relevant information, similar to how beacons identify their location in CW. Maybe something like K0RC/S for the spotting calls
On the other hand, I spent quite a bit of time over the last few days on 20 meters working some DX, calling CQ, and just sending my call. As far as I can tell Pete's Skimmer has NEVER ever found me.