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Re: [CQ-Contest] Summarizing the Skimmer Accuracy Thread

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Summarizing the Skimmer Accuracy Thread
From: Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:28:06 -0500
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Gee, that's not as bad as I thought it would be, given the number of logs and QSOs in CQWW. Maybe we contesters are better than we give ourselves credit for!

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 2/22/2013 2:28 PM, Valery Petrov wrote:
I have just created a simple tool to create virtual logs and play with busted 
calls.
Based on CQ WW CW 2012 public logs.

Enter any call and see how many people have it in their logs.

http://rate.pileup.ru/vlog.php?call=EK3LR

73!
Valery
R5GA


21.02.2013, 05:18, "w5ov@w5ov.com" <w5ov@w5ov.com>:
Add the 20 EK1LZ spots to all the others and it becomes a big problem. 20
bad calls each spotted 20 times is 400 bad spots. When you look at the
problem collectively, it becomes more apparent as to the impact.

If the 20 EK1LZ spots were the only errors, that would not be so bad - I
guess... but that's not the case.

W5OV

  HS0ZCW wrote:  Just so you know, I am breaking my face with a grin at all
  the bad news re Skimmer...

  Let me combine these two comments from my 1991 ARRL CW experience with
  over
  200 QSO worked by robot.  I was #5 at Dayton and twice EU CW simulated
  pileup champ with about 60% correct calls.  IBM AT with 12 MHz clock using
  TI DSP board at 30 MHz beat me badly with 80 %.  I got humble and let it
  run
  on the air.  No problem apart from the band opening with the ringing
  signals.  I was better then knowing to EXPECT KC1XX, W3LPL, K3LR and all
  the
  other big guns I worked million times.  It was not my ears and CW brain
  behind it but PRIOR KNOWLEDGE.  My repeated CW robot efforts recently
  managed Morse Runner in HST mode at 50 wpm and 3K points.  My score was
  1K7.

  Now I can use master.dta for additional verification on my GHz TB PC.
  EK3LR
  is not there but I might miss TO5X, HA30S!

  Beware that we catch Skimmer faults on the callsigns we mainly know but he
  digs a lot of weak ones we might skip in time/space collision.  Skimmer
  does
  it 24/7 with accuracy better than 1 %.  Digital modes entered 21st century
  while hams are in the dark with SSB speech recognition despite limited
  spelling vocabulary.

  Thanks to Tor, N4OGW for great work on SDR contesting!  ARRL & IARU:
  Hamradio is the best scientific hobby of 21st century.

  LP MMM S56A

  P.S.  Bob, EK1LZ was spoted only 20 times!  I forgot to check OC Krassy.
  I
  am more on numbers than Latin - hi.

  -----Original Message-----
  From: w5ov@w5ov.com [mailto:w5ov@w5ov.com]
  Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:22 PM
  To: Marijan Miletic, S56A
  Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com
  Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Summarizing the Skimmer Accuracy Thread

  Mario,

  Your analysis is not correct. It has nothing to do with EK3LR spots as I
  would not have seen them. Locally, this is blocked from the K3LR system
  and
  we don't see them or send them out.

  It is the many, many other errors that persisted throughout the contest of
  calls being spotted wrong, over and over and over.

  Some examples:
  C6AGP was spotted as many other callsigns HA30S (H A Three Zero S) was
  spotted as T30S and others N2NT was spotted as T2NT K1LZ was spotted as
  EK1LZ et al ad infinitum

  Yes, there were many others and they varied.

  It became exhausting to clear the bandmap of all of these repeated errors
  over and over and over again.

  It got to the point that there seemed to be more busted spots than good
  ones. At that point, the value of this over the old-fashioned(?) human
  packet network really becomes a concern.

  Skimmer is a good thing, but propagating these repeated errors all over
  the
  globe makes little sense to me.

  W5OV
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