[CQ-Contest] Reverse Beacon Network Stats from ARRL DX CW

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

I'm afraid that doesn't explain it, Jorge.  As I understand it, a 
station must QSY ~500 Hz before he is recognized as a "new CQer", and 
then only if his transmission contains the keywords CQ or TEST and his 
own callsign at least once.  The procedure used to answer callers should 
make no difference.

It is more likely, I think, that the other stations were making sure to 
incorporate the keywords in their transmissions often enough so that 
they were sure of being re-spotted soon after their "every 10 minutes" 
interval had expired.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 2/22/2012 6:27 PM, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
> Thanks for the info, very interesting.
>
> I was looking for RBN spots while operating and noticed that other station
> in LU and PY had more spots that us.
>
> We use RIT to catch callers, so our TX frequency is fixed for example in
> 28025.0 and we tune with the RIT for stations calling us (28025.2; 28024.9;
> 28025.5, etc). So this that seems to be a good practice is not very good to
> get more RBN spots :-(
>
> Stations that where moving around TX frequency just 100 hz have double spots
> than we had.
>
> South America
> Call          Spots
> ---------   -------
> PJ4X          20330
> PJ2T          20096
> P49Y           5477
> P49V           5371
> 	LS1D           5096
> 	PS2T           4928
> FY5KE          4245
> HD2A           4002
> 	CW5W           3810
>
> 73,
> Jorge
> CX6VM/CW5W
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] En nombre de Pete Smith N4ZR
> Enviado el: Miércoles, 22 de Febrero de 2012 08:28 p.m.
> Para: reflector cq-contest
> Asunto: [CQ-Contest] Reverse Beacon Network Stats from ARRL DX CW
>
> Thanks to N6TV, the stats from last weekend are now on the RBN blog at
> <http://reversebeacon.blogspot.com/2012/02/arrl-dx-cw-stats-thanks-n6tv.html