[CQ-Contest] Summarizing the Skimmer Accuracy Thread

[Albert Crespo]

What a joke contesting has become. Send  your call using the exact 
formula   below so  the robot can copy your call otherwise people 
cannot work you.
N6TJ in the last century said packet doomed real contesting. He was 
right!
------ Original Message ------
From: jpescatore at aol.com
To: CQ-Contest at contesting.com
Sent: 20/02/2013 10:41:34
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Summarizing the Skimmer Accuracy Thread
>Skimmer accuracy had gotten much better, but it is certainly not perfect yet. The accuracy of the spots coming from the RBN are generally higher than those coming from human beings.
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>There are techniques for maximizing the odds of getting spotted by a skimmer, and for minimizing the skimmer busting your call:
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>Send CQ TEST and YOURCALL at the same speed
>If you send your call twice in a CQ, leave an extra half space between the 1st and 2nd instance of your call
>If you have a call that is often busted by humans, (ie, TN copied as G or C) use extra spacing to lower skimmer busts
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>There are techniques for minimizing busted skimmer (or human) spots from showing up on your bandmap/logging software:
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>Use software like VE7CC;s AR User to limit skimmers to those that are geographically meaningfully to you, and to spots that are meaningful to the contest.
>Use the settings in N1MM or other contest software (blacklisting/available mult/Q window filtering, etc) to minimize display of meaningless spots.
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>When jumping on spots, throw in a little XIT dither of 50 -200 hz to avoid the zero beat lemmings leaping on spots problem.
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