[RTTY] RTTY Skimmer - DF4UE

[pcooper]

Pete and the group,

Agreed, the DF4UE skimmer has loads of partial/wrong calls listed every few minutes.
I've just had a look at his recent postings, and they contain numerous partials and totally wrong calls, let alone the ones responding to FH/F2DX on 12m RTTY earlier today.

It would be interesting to note whether he takes your advice, and whether you get a response from him.

Our local skimmer is making use of several other skimmers, most of which are OK, but I not that N2QT and KM3T both frequently spot me when I am responding to a CQ call.

I'm running Spotcollector from DXLab Suite by AA6YQ, and I have two windows open, one for the normal cluster, and one for the skimmer cluster, so I can see when I am spotted on either.
I keep the skimmer cluster going to watch for that first activity from rare DX, and it has served me well.
I was lucky to get K1N on 10m RTTY, simply because I was in the right place at the right time, and got them before anyone else came on frequency.
But, I was also spotted by several other skimmer clusters as being on 10m RTTY at the same time.

Having said that, I wouldn't want to be without access to a skimmer cluster, except I just don't find it that useful in a contest.

73 de Phil GU0SUP