[RTTY] RTTY-Skimmer in Beta-Test during the SARTG RTTY Contest

[Jerry Flanders]

On Saturday I was spotted many times in the SARTG by DC3RJ and a few
by DL3RCK. My S/N ranged as low as 9 dB. I had been operating high on 20M
(maybe 14111 or so) when I first learned of the RBN. When I started
monitoring RBN I had no hits, so dropped down to an area where hits
were being reported (14080 - 90) and started running there. I was
spotted pretty soon.

Pretty nice to see that I was about the same S/N as guys who had much
better antennas (I only have wire dipoles in my trees here).

My run macro was _SARTG_W4UK_W4UK_CQ_  ("_" is space). I am guessing
that space at the end is very important.

BTW, I was never spotted Sunday although I ran 5-6 hours.

RTTY RBN looks like it will be a great tool..

When I search on my callsign today I can see my 
history of 30-40 spots. I assume anyone could
go to one of the links below and search on their 
callsign to see if they were spotted.

Jerry W4UK



At 01:23 PM 8/18/2012, Walter Dallmeier wrote:
>Many OM's are asking how they find the spots...
>Currently to see what happens only one skimmer must be selected.
>
>For example 2 skimmer:
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>http://www.reversebeacon.net/dxsd1/dxsd1.php?f=0&c=dl4rck&t=de
>http://www.reversebeacon.net/dxsd1/dxsd1.php?f=0&c=dc3rj&t=de
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>73 de Walter, DL4RCK
>
>Walter Dallmeier
>www.dl4rck.de
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>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] Im
>Auftrag von Walter Dallmeier
>Gesendet: Samstag, 18. August 2012 07:15
>An: RTTY Contesting
>Betreff: [RTTY] RTTY-Skimmer in Beta-Test during the SARTG RTTY Contest
>
>Hello,
>
>this weekend during the SARTG RTTY Contest me and some other OM's are
>running a RTTY-Skimmer in Beta-Test. The spots are posted at the RBN
>www.reversebeacon.net .
>Have a look there for spots with "45 wpm", that's the RTTY-spots.
>
>73 de Walter, DL4RCK
>
>Walter Dallmeier
>www.dl4rck.de