Europe opened to NA very early on 40m this weekend; it was runable from K2LE by 13:30 local both Saturday and Sunday. When I would call CQ, the RBN would light up like a Christmas tree from EU skimme
I was amazed at how early I was able to work EU last night on 40. Normally I hear them fine but never ever do they respond....not so yesterday. I wish I had tried earlier. There were plenty I called
I get this All the time from ak But when searching for specific stations on cw or digital there is nothing like it. Also got gootgood way to Che k antenna's ________________________________ From: CQ-
I was wondering something along the same lines Gerry. I tuned across some loud EU's both days (vy easily worked), well before SSet and then thought, heck, I'll try CQing. Found a slot, started hammer
I don't buy it, but an easy extra data-point would be to check how many times you were spotted by RBN nodes in Europe. Most of the most prolific RBN nodes in the recent CQWW were in Europe, so it wou
Hi Pete, Yes, i have my RBN filters set to pass our callsign so I could see in the info window of N1MM. When I was,calling CQ, I was amazed at the sheer number of Skimmers in EU spotting me (not typi
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:13:10 +0100
About cluster/RBN/skimmer usage, figures from the 2015 WAG survey: 426 German participants: Q: Do you use: Clusterspots 61% RBN-Spots 25% Own Skimmer 3% Nothing of the above 37% 85 English speaking r
Very interesting. -- confirms my claim. 73, Gerry W1VE _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/c
Interesting the greatest number of own skimmers with Russian speaking respondents. Another interesting question for the next survey would be " Are you sharing your own skimmer spots with others via R
It would be interesting to know a couple of things: Did the Clusterspots percentage include the RBN percentage? It appears that it must. Also, was the question asked of all respondents about *all* op
Author: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 23:37:12 +0100
Hi Pete, it is Q31 from the files with the full Q&A set plus freetext comments at the bottom of the linked page http://www.darc.de/der-club/referate/dx/contest/wag/en/newsarchives/survey-2015/ Its wo
Interesting thread this, Im enjoying it. Here are some of my thoughts. I usually enter assisted in CW contests and use the RBN feed but I rather think the RBN has become a victim of its own success.
Hey Dez, Great feedback. From the Northeast US, we use the RBN feed and filter it to show only clusters from the New England states, VE9/2, and out to PA. These makes a very robust feed to populate t