[CQ-Contest] RTTY Skimmer Accuracy was Re: Contesting Technology - Phone Skimmer Nears Beta Test

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Regarding Salvo's complaint, I'm not really surprised. What he's seeing 
is a natural result of suddenly getting 100-200X as many RTTY spots as 
were being delivered by RCK Skimmer, 3 KHz at a time.  The same 
techniques as used on CW Skimmer spots, such as CT1BOH's skimquality 
filters, need to be applied to clean up the spot stream. When in doubt, 
choose an ARCluster V6 or VE7CC cluster node.  And,. of course, continue 
spreading the gospel about tweaking the radio's frequency a little 
before you call a clicked spot.

Please note, I'm not criticizing RCK Skimmer in any way. It is the RBN's 
only source for non-RTTY digital spots, which I'm sure many users 
appreciate.

73, Pete N4ZR
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For spots, please go to your favorite
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On 4/4/2015 7:37 PM, Tom Osborne wrote:
> Think I'm getting a good taste of RTTY Skimmer here.  Every time I 
> call CQ on 15 I get about 3 or 4 JA's all zero beat, about S-2 or 3 
> calling me at the same time.  Send 'agn?' and they all call again. 
> Takes 3 or 4 tries to finally get a call out of the mess.
>
> Is there a way to tell it, 'Don't spot me, please?'  Think I'll go 
> watch basketball instead.   73
> Tom W7WHY
>
>
>
> On 4/4/2015 11:05 AM, iw1ayd - Salvatore Irato wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> Mario I could agree with you partially. The DL4RCK RTTY was made and 
>> worked on field well before any other RTTY Skimmer. Almost two years 
>> ago there was a working network of DL4RCK RTTY Skimmer. All those 
>> working pretty well.
>> Now I am looking, since almost January, as to make it easy, and the 
>> deployment of the VE3NEA Skimmers a lot of busted RTTY calls a lot of 
>> multiplier that are not multipliers and a whole plethora of bad 
>> call-signs spotted by the newest RTTY Skimmer. By myself my call was 
>> spotted as W1AYD several times in between IW1AYD. But also more easy 
>> calls that fall under simpler rules are busted since the new and not 
>> so bright RTTY Skimmer schema went on. Full stop.
>
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