[CQ-Contest] HA: New RBN Server Debuts

[Vladimir Sidarau]

Excuse me, perhaps it's not my business but is there a mailing list devoted
to skimmers somewhere else? 

73,
Vladimir VE3IAE

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[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] От имени Pete Smith
Отправлено: November-17-11 5:12 PM
Кому: cq-contest at contesting.com
Тема: Re: [CQ-Contest] New RBN Server Debuts

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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now at arcluster.reversebeacon.net port 7000



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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