[CQ-Contest] Voice RBN

Joe nss at mwt.net
Mon Aug 23 16:01:39 EDT 2021


As someone who has zero clue as to how the RBN system works.

I can surely tell when one grabs me, I see it in N1MM and then suddenly 
the freq, well I can say some times I'm happy it spotted me and others 
well you see the spot come through and know shortly the freq is gonna go 
to hell.

I wonder, if the RBN's could be made to work with a call list of who 
wants to be spotted,

This way the RBN has a list of clean calls to work with.  if it copies 
something on the list is tells everyone. if it does not have a match 
then it ignores it.

This cures the bad copy problem, AND for those that do NOT want to be 
spotted for the above mentioned reason, they can make sure their call is 
not on the official list so they won't get spotted.

Possible?

Thoughts?

etc...
Joe WB9SBD

On 8/23/2021 12:50 PM, w1rm at comcast.net wrote:
> Now this is going to sound odd coming from a die-hard CW guy but as one who
> sips the cup of RBN CW spots, I can tell you there is need for a lot of
> improvement in that technology.  Voice RBN would be scary!  If there were
> voice RBN actually put into production I would hope the stations who relay
> those spots offer the ability to turn them off!
>
>   
>
> I know there have been attempts to better filter CW RBN and yet I still see
> a lot of broken CW spots.  Broken because they are inaccurate.  CW RBN does
> not have any real intelligence yet so spots for things like EZ get through
> (E7 ops probably sending way too fast or badly), even though there is no
> legal hamming in EZ.  I see a lot of spots for TN's too, but they are broken
> calls thanks to less that proper sending.
>
>   
>
> I have done enough SSB contesting to know how hard it is to pull the correct
> call out, especially when the op on the other side doesn't speak clearly,
> has muffled or distorted audio, has massive background noise or echo, just
> to name a few of the challenges.  My hat's off to those of you who operate
> phone contests and do it well.  The folks who do DXpeditions are even more
> to be congratulated!
>
>   
>
> This one needs to be done like great BBQ, low and slow (:->)
>
>   
>
> Pete Chamalian, W1RM
>
> W1rm at comcast.net
>
>   
>
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