[RTTY] Re Skimmers

[Ian White]

GU0SUP wrote:
>Just for your info, take a look at the skimmers earlier this 
>evening at spots on 20m RTTY.
>FT4JA was on 14090 listening up, and there were loads of 
>spots coming from most of the skimmer clusters just spotting 
>callers, me included, way up past 14125.
>
>I know I didn't send a CQ at all, just DE GU0SUP GU0SUP and yet I was
>spotted by several skimmers.
>

There is something seriously wrong with a large number of skimmers at
the moment, because *nobody* in that pileup was sending "CQ" either
before or after their callsigns. 

But it wasn't the skimmers who stretched out the pileup "way up past
14125". The operator consistently replied to callers at the upper edge
of the pileup, and kept on moving HF.


73 from Ian GM3SEK