[CQ-Contest] Did you record your CQWW contest effort?

[Pete Smith]

I'm sure there are a bunch of them out there, (I have a few) but the 
problem is sheer size.  A 96-khz bandwidth Skimmer I/Q recording of one 
band consumes approximately 2 GB an hour, or roughly 20 DVDs for a 
48-hour contest.  When a few of us recorded the CQ 160 contest, at the 
request of the CQ committee, we actually wound up sending in hard drives 
by mail - even bit-torrent was too slow. Skimmer Server does not have a 
recording function, because Alex was concerned about the probable effect 
of "bursty" disk access on the performance of the 7-band decoder.

And yes, Rocky should replay Skimmer I/Q recordings just fine - Skimmer 
itself also has a very nice play function.

73, Pete N4ZR

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On 11/3/2010 4:05 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
> Along those lines, I wonder there is any repository of recorded I/Q
> files from CW Skimmer or other SDR program.  That would hold a LOT of
> information since it would capture a wide bandwidth, not just single
> frequencies.   I'm assuming that files recorded with CW Skimmer could be
> replayed using the free application Rocky since both were written by
> VE3NEA, but I haven't tried it to know for sure.  It would be just like
> tuning the band.
>
> 73,
> Dave  AB7E
>
>
> On 11/3/2010 10:19 AM, kr2q at optimum.net wrote:
>    
>> One day, it would be nice to have a public resource available from everyone who recorded
>> their contest effort.
>>
>>      
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