[RTTY] RTTY SkimServer Announcment

[Walter Dallmeier]

Hello Mark,

really nice news, indeed.
If so, my DCS-system (dl4rck.ham-radio-op.net:8000) is no longer necessary
with the RTTY/BPSK skimmers, because of the very much better performance of
a full SDR supported system.
My system will going offline end of the year. Hope RTTYSkimServer will work
this time.

Many thanks to all RCKskimmer user for the great support and distributing
many digital spots over the last two years.
Please prepare your systems with the new RTTYSkimServer and support the RBN
as well as you did it for the Digital Cluster System DCS.

73 de Walter, DL4RCK
Walter Dallmeier
www.dl4rck.de



2014-10-01 1:27 GMT+02:00 Mark <n2qt.va at gmail.com>:

> From the emails on this reflector and in the 3830 comments, it's clear
> that CQWW RTTY
> participants noticed the increase of rttyskimmer spots!  As part of the
> team that has
> been taking this software through alpha testing I've been asked to give
> you an update.
> The software, RTTY SkimServer by Alex, VE3NEA,  entered alpha testing
> right before
> the SCC RTTY Contest, and that contest was used to help wring out
> stability and other
> issues.  Right before CQWW, the decision was made to start sending spots
> out over the
> RBN  ( http://www.reversebeacon.net/ ).   This was to allow additional
> stress testing and
> analysis of spotting performance.  This resulted in just under half a
> million spots due
> to the efforts of:
> Mark N2QT      Pete N4ZR              Petr OL5Q
> Wes  WZ7I       Rick ZL2HAM         Alex VE3NEA
> Dick W3OA      Vasily K3IT
>
> These spots and their accompanying data are now being reviewed to improve
> the accuracy
> of spots, especially for the correct identification of CQing stations.
> Currently the software
> is stable, but lacks documentation.  The plan is to continue improving the
> performance
> and completing the documentation before it becomes publicly available.
> Spotting via the
> RBN will continue as these refinements are tested and reviewed.
>
> RTTYSkimServer is, unsurprisingly, very similar to CW SkimServer, also
> developed by
> VE3NEA ( http://dxatlas.com/SkimServer/ ).  It has a minimal user
> interface and requires
> editing an ini file for configuration It is designed to produce high
> quality spots over a
> telnet link.  It will operate with any of the wide band SDRs that
> currently operate with
> CW SkimServer i.e. QS1R, Hermes or USRP, and provides multiband
> operation.  The
> software will be available as shareware.
>
> Hope the spots added to your enjoyment of the contest!
>
> 73
> Mark N2QT
> (and sorry, no more alpha testers needed)
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