[RTTY] rckskimmer, still worth setting up?

Sun Apr 17 12:27:06 EDT 2016

Hi Jurgen.

The answers are:

*+"yes, it is worth to do some personal testing with standard radio and 
the DL4RCK RTTY skimmer"
  (That's why it's made for.)

* "no, the DL4RCK RTTY skimmer seemed to me not to have the same amount 
of wrong CQ - DE false detection"
(Having done some contesting over year, maybe the digital squelch, maybe 
several fringe signals, but now it is worst then before.)

About the second sentence why not to do what you ask at first?

        73 de iw1ayd Salvo

On 17/04/2016 18:00, rtty-request at contesting.com wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 10:52:42 +0200
> From: Jurgen Geldhof<list at on5mf.be>
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> Subject: [RTTY] rckskimmer, still worth setting up?
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> Hi,
>
> the nearest station skimming for the digital modes is some 600km away
> from here. So I was thinking of setting up a modest skimmer station for
> the digital modes here locally.
>
> I still have some questions though:
>
>    * I have most of the gear I need to run RCKskimmer (old transceiver
>      etc). Is it still worth to run RCKskimmer or is it a waste of time
>      and resources to set everything up? I don't know yet if I want to
>      spend ?800+ to purchase an SDR receiver.
>    * does RCKskimmer have the same problem with separating the
>      'DE-stations' from the 'CQ-stations'?
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> -- 73 Jurgen Geldhof ON5MF / OQ6A 
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