[CQ-Contest] New Reverse Beacon Network Feature

Pete Smith n4zr at contesting.com
Wed Aug 18 13:20:48 PDT 2010


People interested in analyzing activity should know that the RBN now 
makes raw data available in one-day chunks at 
http://reversebeacon.net/raw_data/ . Data are contained in zipped .csv 
files, and the unzipped .csv files can be pretty big - for example, the 
first day of WAE had 177,000 spots.  With upwards of 30 Reverse Beacons 
available, if a station was CQing on a band, you'll find it there.

And of course, the graphical Spot Analysis Tool is available as always 
at http://reversebeacon.net/analysis .  Choose a Reverse Beacon in your 
target area and you can compare signals from up to 10 stations over an 
entire day.

-- 
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,
spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000



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