[RTTY] RTTY Skimmer

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

One very low-cost way to get your feet wet is to buy a Softrock receiver 
($21 kit) crystalled for your Transceiver's IF output (assuming you have 
one) and run it with RTTY Skimmer. Alternatively, you can connect to a 
DX cluster that carrie Skimmer spots and use a combination of filters to 
get spots only from Skimmers that are likely to have the same 
propagation as you do.

73, Pete N4ZR
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For spots, please use your favorite
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On 3/21/2016 7:52 PM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
> Do a lot of you use the RBN or some other source of skimmer "spots"?
>
> I ask because I found during the BARTG that almost as soon as I started running a frequency I was handling a small pileup that would last for maybe 10 minutes and then be over. Yet I found no spots for my call sign when I checked the traditional clusters during slow periods.  I don't normally run assisted except during the CW & SSB SS or unless I know that a needed DX will be an entry in a contest. My approach to contesting is usually pretty laid back and I like twirling the big knob or dozing off while calling CQ ;^).  I wonder if I'm missing something?
>
> Is anyone using an SDR to gather their own skimmer spots?  I've been looking for an excuse to buy an SDR receiver and wonder if this might be a good one.
>
> Al
> AB2ZY
>
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