[CQ-Contest] Reverse Beacon Network

[k3it]

You just discovered a way to finance RBN - charge subscription for the
"purified" stream of spots ;)


On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Hank Greeb <n8xx at arrl.org> wrote:

> I believe we SHOULD all b***h and moan about the Reverse Beacon Network.
> It is co$ting us $o much for the information that we have a right to DEMAND
> perfection.
>
> If it reads me as N7XX once, and N9XD the next, I'm very miffed, and
> demand double the subscription rate back as partial compensation of all the
> trouble it causes me.  We all are sure the folks who work me are Dunces
> enough NOT to bother to read my call, which I send at least every 9.999
> minutes per "run."   I send this call at 99 WPM, because it saves a few
> microseconds in sending, and ONCE in 9.999 minutes is REQUIRED by the FCC.
>  The regs don't say anything about sending speed, so cranking it up to the
> maximum my sending routine will send it perfectly legal.  And, compressing
> the timing between element of a character, and between character save at
> least one microsecond every 9.999 minutes.
>
> So, if enough of us DEMAND our subscription $$'s back, those clods who run
> the Reverse Beacon Network will shape up!
>
> 72/73 de n8xx Hg
> QRP >99.44% of the time
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