[CQ-Contest] An Easter Egg from the RBN - Not April Fool's, I Promise

[Matt Murphy]

This is excellent -- I made a small utility that does something similar and
displays it on a simulated pan adapter. It is real time but may require a
few CQs before it finds enough new spots to populate the display.

The one I made is available online at http://nq6n.com

73,
Matt NQ6N

On Saturday, April 2, 2016, Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just found out about an undocumented feature of the RBN's Spot Analysis
> Tool.  Maybe you already know, but you don't have to wait until the next
> day to see comparisons among stations at any given RBN node, and indeed you
> can step through a number of them and see, in near real time, how various
> stations are doing into a target area, such as Europe or the US.  Here's
> how:
>
> Select today's date.
> Select a node in your target area - preferably one that hears well and
> makes a lot of spots.
> Enter the calls you want to compare - yours, your competition, up to 10 of
> them.
> Now here's the trick.  As you add each station whose spots you want to
> compare, they are added to the graphs *as of that moment.* To update the
> display, simply select another node and then switch back to the original
> one.  After you get back, click on the "Refresh Data" icon (it will be
> un-greyed-out now).  Shazam - the graphs will be up to date.
>
> Oh, by the way, you can select frequency rather than SNR as the vertical
> axis of your graphs, using the radio buttons at the very top of the Spots
> Analysis Tool - a good way to see where the competition is running. Other
> useful applications are left, as they used to say, "to the student."
>
> Thanks to WX3B and PY1NB for cluing me in.
>
> --
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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