[CQ-Contest] "Reverse Beacon" - Skimmer as LID

[Pete Smith]

I think you're jumping too quickly to that conclusion, Ken.  Yes, it makes 
too many mistakes, right now.  I've been testing a simple solution, though 
- running each Skimmer spot through a quick comparison with the master.dta 
file, and only posting the ones that match on the bandmap.  You'll lose a 
few genuine uniques that way, but it also cleans up almost all the junk.  I 
have no doubt that Alex will develop other techniques for improving the 
output in the coming months.

As I reported a month or so ago, I ran CW Skimmer against a KC pileup 
contest recording, and even without the master.dta comparison it would have 
finished 4th or 5th.

73, Pete N4ZR

   At 09:37 PM 4/15/2008, Ken Widelitz wrote:
>I clicked on the link in Pete's post and saw the following spots made by
>skimmers on 7031.6:
>
>KO3I            0131
>KO4OK           0129
>KO4D            0128
>
>I have followed the skimmer thread with interest. This single sample
>convinces me I won't use skimmer in SS this year.
>
>73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT