One quirk of the skimmer server spotting, if you are cqing on 2 bands at
once it will alternately spot each band as it decodes... It assumes that
when it gets you on a new freq that you have qsy'ed there. This can run up
spot totals for m/m stations very quickly!
David Robbins K1TTT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tõnno Vähk [mailto:Tonno.Vahk@gafm.ee]
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 22:10
> To: CQ Contest
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] R36K mystery solved?
>
>
> I tried to find the answer to why R36K had zero skimmer spots
> from our contest recording.
>
> Just once I had their CQ message caught and it was:
>
> "R36K ++++TEST----" or similar. Once call sign in the
> beginning and then TEST faster.
>
> It seems skimmers don't really like that?
>
> We had "++++TEST---- R33A R33A".
>
> We had less CW QSOs than other top stations. Less CQs in CW.
> We did not almost use dual CQ. The reason for R33M huge
> skimmer spot count is very active dual CQ in CW.
>
> ES5TV
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Luc PY8AZT
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 4:12 PM
> To: n4zr@contesting.com
> Cc: CQ Contest
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Spots and Success in the WRTC - a
> little data for discussion
>
> 2010/7/19 Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>:
> > The following table lists the contestants in WRTC by finish
> order and
> > callsign, and then shows the number of spots recorded in the Reverse
> > Beacon Network database. Reverse beacons don't cheerlead or select
> > which stations to spot. You can draw your own conclusions. Perhaps
> > there is a statistician among us who can derive further
> enlightenment by
> > analyzing these numbers, together with others released by
> the organizers.
> >
> > Call Place Spots
> > R32F 1 182
> > R33A 2 109
> > R33M 3 316
> > R39D 4 172
> > R34P 5 156
> > R32K 6 0
> > R32R 7 106
>
> Peter,
>
> I'm not statistician, but I saw a Skimmer working at PW7T M/2 for
> first time on last WPX CW.
> I noted Skimmer script is limited to spot station calling CQ not often
> than 10min basis. Over 10min, I guess It looks for a CQ and a CALL
> words to proceed the spot.
>
> It was very clear to us, when we were very busy working pileup,
> without ID or doing short ID as TU PW7T, we weren't spotted at all by
> our local Skimmer. We needed to call CQ twice like CQ TEST PW7T to our
> local Skimmer catch us.
>
> So, I can say that R33A wasn't CQing enought to be catched as
> R32F was.
> And Zero from R32K spots could means bad keying, bad call or never CQ
> hi hi hi. How knows?
>
> --
> 73, Luc
> __
> PW7T Team member
> WRTC.2010 Brazilian Team Leader
> PY8AZT (also PT7AG, PX8C, ZZ8Z, ZY7C)
> LABRE, ARRL, & Fortaleza DX Group Member
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