[CQ-Contest] New RBN Server Debuts

[Pete Smith]

Rich, I think that it definitely requires some intelligent filtering on 
the part of the user.  Not only are there RBN stations that spot things 
most of us can't hear, but propagation is also a major factor.  If I 
were you, I would filter first by geography, limiting to Skimmers near 
you, and then consider whether you want to reject some of them because 
their antennas are just too good.  N1MM Logger provides for filtering 
out spotters whose spots you do not want to hear, for whatever reason, 
as well as filtering out recurrent bad spots.  DXspider, ARCluster6 and 
CC User all have different arrays of filters that you may find useful to 
tailor which spots you actually get.

73, Pete N4ZR

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spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 AND now
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On 11/16/2011 11:10 PM, Rich NU6T wrote:
> Hi Pete.  I've discovered a difficulty as a little pistol using the RBN
> spots via VE7CC's CC User.  The problem is that many spots are for
> stations I can't hear.  I ran assisted with N1MM, and found that I
> typically jumped to a spot (SS CW and CQ WW SSB) and then spun the dial
> to the station to the side of the spot and to the station I could hear.
> I'm guessing that a number of RBN sources are stations with great
> locations and antennas.  (I did limit sources to those near my QTH).
>
> I'm thinking that I may have not really been "assisted".  The value of
> the spots to me was that if provided a convenient quick way to jump to
> new S&P search location.
>
> Rich
> NU6T
>
> On 11/16/2011 5:27 AM, Pete Smith wrote:
>> I'm happy to announce that the new RBN database and web server is now up
>> and running.  It is about twice as powerful as its predecessor, and our
>> testing so far indicates that it should be able to handle even the
>> unprecedented activity we expect for CQWWCW.  Both of the RBN's telnet
>> servers are available for connection to your logging programs, at the
>> addresses below.  See you there?
>>
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