[RTTY] [rckskimmer] Re: RTTY SkimServer Announcment

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Not to my knowledge, Torsten, but you'd really have to ask him.

73, Pete N4ZR
Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at
http://reversebeacon.net,
blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com.
For spots, please go to your favorite
ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node.

On 10/2/2014 2:39 AM, 'Torsten Ernst' torsten-ernst at web.de [rckskimmer] 
wrote:
>
>
> Hi Pete,
> it would be good for us to know, whether Alex has also planned a 
> skimmer server for PSKmodes.
> 73, Torsten - DL9GTB
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 01. Oktober 2014 um 21:21 Uhr
> *Von:* "Pete Smith N4ZR n4zr at contesting.com [rckskimmer]" 
> <rckskimmer at yahoogroups.com>
> *An:* rckskimmer at yahoogroups.com, n2qt.va at gmail.com
> *Cc:* "<rtty at contesting.com>" <rtty at contesting.com>
> *Betreff:* Re: [rckskimmer] Re: [RTTY] RTTY SkimServer Announcment
>
> Walter, we all owe you a debt of gratitude for showing us the way with 
> RTTY and PSK spots on the RBN.  I do not know if it makes a difference 
> to your decision, but RTTY SkimServ does not decode or spot PSK 
> transmissions.
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at
> http://reversebeacon.net,
> blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com.
> For spots, please go to your favorite
> ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node.
> On 10/1/2014 2:40 PM, Walter Dallmeier dl4rck at gmail.com [rckskimmer] 
> wrote:
>
>     Hello Mark,
>     really nice news, indeed.
>     If so, my DCS-system (dl4rck.ham-radio-op.net:8000
>     <http://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 <http://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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