[CQ-Contest] Summarizing the Skimmer Accuracy Thread

W0MU Mike Fatchett w0mu at w0mu.com
Wed Feb 20 15:49:15 EST 2013


There was a KT6 station that was always spotted as T6...which is 
obviously pretty rare.  This was happening because of some strange 
spacing the guy was using in his CQ messages.  This was not in a contest 
and I wonder if it was done on purpose.

Mike W0MU

On 2/20/2013 10:50 AM, Marijan Miletic, S56A wrote:
> W5OV writes: During a contest, the RBN continually and repeatedly, ad
> infinitum, makes the same errors over and over and over which fills the
> bandmaps with useless stuff.
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> I guess Bob argument is biased on EK3LR events.  There are less than 100
> wrong spots from USA Skimmers.  One would also expect similar EK9CT errors
> but there are only 5.  No EK1ZZ or EK9NW.  Only 16 errors of EW3LPL.  Only
> one EU Skimmer G0KTN made EK3LR single error out of 330 proper spots.
> Average human error rate on CW is around 3 %.  Not for Z6/S56A!
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> I suspect K3LR is using full break-in at legal power which distorts CW
> envelope causing random timing errors.  We can learn a lot from RBN!
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> Note to W3WN & W2UP:  We learnt a lot about proper coding since Alfred Vail
> "invented" Morse code based on English language stats J  I like Pascal.
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> LP MMM S56A
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