> >
> > I'm not talking about the reverse beacon network, Steve - I'm talking
> > about using a Skimmer to feed your logging program locally. There will be
> > no network benchmark for those.
>
>
> You have missed my point.
>
> I'm sure that the log adjudicators will be setting up a private network of
> skimmers that they will log into to grab skimmer spots through the skimmer
> telnet interface. That will provide a database of skimmer spots that will be
> used for later detection of skimmer cheaters.
>
> This will work every bit as well as using packet spot history to detect
> packet cheaters.
>
Again, you are thinking about the spot trail from a centralized skimmer
collector, not a local skimmer.
What my skimmer gets in MS and what ARRL gets in CT will be significantly different.
There is NOT a single "packet spot history" from skimmer. Each skimmer decodes
signals a little differently because they are using output from different
radios, antennas, and locations. So a spot showing up at one location might not
show up for several minutes later at another (if at all).<blockquote
About the only signature of skimmer use I can think of would be working a lot of stations at very
different frequencies (ie hopping around the band a lot). Detecting this would
then require everyone to turn in a log with full frequency information. And
it would be difficult to distinguish from someone doing SO2R and combing the
bands for mults.
Tor
N4OGW
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