[CQ-Contest] Cheerleading

[Mark Bailey]

Hi Barry:

This is certainly not the case in a WPX contest (or even a CQWW) where a 
LOT of new callsigns show up.  This would make the RBN feed MUCH less 
useful for many, many users.

Maybe some flag could be added in the COMMENT field or, better yet, a 
filtering option for the RBN USERS to control their feed.  The sysops 
need to send everything!

I haven't seen ANYTHING like 50% errors.  It is true that, late in the 
contest when I;vve worked most of the CQing stations, the unworked 
stations list contain more busted callsigns - most of the good ones get 
filtered out.  The traditional packet cluster has the same behavior.

73,

Mark, KD4D


  On 11/8/2011 7:28 AM, Barry N1EU wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Barry<w2up at comcast.net>  wrote:
>> The skimmers suck.  In SS, I'd estimate 50% busted calls and this is
>> perfect, computer sent CW.
> I know the sysops have decided not to do callsign validation (against
> the contest callsign database) of the skimmer spots before putting
> them out on the RBN network  but I'd rethink that decision during
> major contest periods.  The vast majority of running stations are
> going to be in that database.  The benefit of cleaning up many of
> those busted calls far outweighs the risk of losing a few genuine
> cq'ers who must be new to the game and thus not in the database.
>
> Barry N1EU
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