[RTTY] WHY put CQ at the end?

[David Levine]

Thanks Lee for your comment as well as your cluster and the software I run
locally. I have used skimmer to feed my local cluster client before but I
didn't use it this past weekend. It has it's advantages and disadvantages,
especially for a little 100w wire antenna guy like me. A disadvantage is a
skimmer spotted station that is extremely needed/popular gets bombarded and
I'm actually better off and more productive waiting for any onslaught to
die down. With the thinking on how long to keep a skimmer spot in the
bandmap before it's deleted, how often it gets respotted it's sometimes
more challenging to know when I can more productively work a skimmer
spotted station. If I was running 1.5KW with a 100+ ft tower and yagis I'd
probably have a different opinion and approach.

I worked 3 KH2 stations and a 2 ZLs each on the first call on 15m - better
to be lucky vs good. If they were all hot mults that showed up via the
skimmer, I'm sure it would have been a waste of time for me to call right
away.

K2DSL - David


On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Lee Sawkins <ve7cc at shaw.ca> wrote:

> David
>
> If  you are using my cluster and want skimmer spots just enter SET/SKIMMER
> and you will get them.  You also should reject at least CW and PSK skimmer
> spots during RTTY contests by using the KEYWORD filter.  SET/FILTER
> KEYWORD/REJ CW,PSK
>
> I found during the contest, even after running on a frequency and being
> spotted by skimmers all the time, as soon as a real person spotted me I had
> a mini pileup.
>
> Lee
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Levine" <david at levinecentral.com
> >
> To: "Dave Hachadorian" <k6ll.dave at gmail.com>
> Cc: "reflector RTTY" <rtty at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 10:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] WHY put CQ at the end?
>
>
>  I operated this past weekend using VE7CC cluster and not a skimmer to feed
>> spots. I was set to spot any station I worked that wasn't already spotted,
>> I spotted a huge number of stations which means they weren't already
>> spotted by another operator. To give you the magnitude of how many, I
>> alone
>> spotted 50 stations not in the cluster in the last 2 hrs 30 mins of the
>> contest, according to DXWatch. So I wouldn't agree with the statement that
>> S&P operators will arrive on a frequency knowing the station calling CQ.
>>
>> Maybe different once everyone is using a skimmer cluster, but it's not
>> something I'm into yet.  But I'm a little guy and maybe I'm not
>> representative of the majority of operators working a contest. And I
>> disagree that ending with CQ is a hindrance whether in CW, phone or RTTY.
>>
>> K2DSL - David
>>
>>
>
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