[CQ-Contest] A new "DX cluster" experience for contesters

[Georgek5kg at aol.com]

What hath God wrought!
 
Geo...k5kg
 
George  Wagner, K5KG
Sarasota, FL 
941-400-1960 cell  

 
In a message dated 4/12/2010 2:38:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
n4zr at contesting.com writes:

The  Reverse Beacon Network (http://reversebeacon.net) has now made a 
Telnet  feed of the aggregated output of all currently active RBN Skimmer  
receivers available in real time at telnet.reversebeacon.net port  7000.  
Thanks to Rick, K4TD, for making the server available, and to  Felipe, 
PY1NB and Nick, F5VIH for the programming effort.

So big  deal, you say?  Well, before you blow it off, take a look at the 
flow  of spots, even on a normal weekday.  Run them through appropriate  
filters to remove duplicates, restrict spots to your country, continent,  
or call area, or whatever, and use them to populate the bandmap of your  
favorite contest logging software.  I think you'll be  amazed.

This feed offers one huge advantage for contesters, because the  RBN 
spots *every* station it hears, not just the ones that someone,  
somewhere thinks are worthy of being spotted.  It is also listening  on 
all bands, all the time, at world-wide sites.

ONE CAUTION --  Precisely because it spots everything, usually multiple 
times, it would be  disastrous if someone were to feed the RBN Telnet 
server into the normal  DX cluster network.  If this happens, the server 
may have to be shut  down, so *please* don't do it.

-- 
73, Pete N4ZR

The World  Contest Station Database, updated daily at 
www.conteststations.com
The  Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at  
reversebeacon.blogspot.com

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