[CQ-Contest] Summarizing the Skimmer Accuracy Thread

[w5ov at w5ov.com]

Mario,

Your analysis is not correct. It has nothing to do with EK3LR spots as I
would not have seen them. Locally, this is blocked from the K3LR system
and we don't see them or send them out.

It is the many, many other errors that persisted throughout the contest of
calls being spotted wrong, over and over and over.

Some examples:
C6AGP was spotted as many other callsigns
HA30S (H A Three Zero S) was spotted as T30S and others
N2NT was spotted as T2NT
K1LZ was spotted as EK1LZ
et al
ad infinitum

Yes, there were many others and they varied.

It became exhausting to clear the bandmap of all of these repeated errors
over and over and over again.

It got to the point that there seemed to be more busted spots than good
ones. At that point, the value of this over the old-fashioned(?) human
packet network really becomes a concern.

Skimmer is a good thing, but propagating these repeated errors all over
the globe makes little sense to me.

W5OV



> 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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