[SCCC] Contest Skimmers

[H Lawrence Serra]

Thanks, Tim. That is the point. For most of us out here in CA, taking spots from all the US skimmers is like drinking from a fire hose, and those skimmers do not share our propagation. When I am contesting assisted I use VE7CC User (which has an easy to use graphic interface to set up filters, both PASS and REJECT) and have it select only W6 and W7 skimmers (which right now  = N6NC, WA7LNW and KC7J) which show spots actually heard with our propagation. Those spots are then telneted directly to my N1MM band maps through the N1MM telnet window. 

I also keep a second monitor running with two open windows: the running stream of all VE7CC spots (with the State or Country information column activated), and the filtered skimmer spots telnet window of N1MM. That way I can watch to make sure the skimmer spots are flowing properly into N1MM, and also monitor all the unfiltered VE7CC telnet spots to find a missing MULT (like VY1, or SD in SSCW) or country, which are shown in the VE7CC information column.

73, Larry N6NC

--- On Fri, 1/28/11, Timothy Coker <n6win73 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Timothy Coker <n6win73 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [SCCC] Contest Skimmers
To: 
Cc: sddxcnews at yahoogroups.com, sccc at contesting.com
Date: Friday, January 28, 2011, 6:48 PM

Thanks for the information and keeping your server up Larry.

I like to use both of your servers along with W6/W7 traditional spots fed to
me from VE7CC's telnet program/site to DX Keeper's Spot Collector for my
DXing needs. This trio of filtering allows me to keep my notifications to
what I often times can reasonably hear (I don't have good enough
antennas/height to worry about what the east coast hears). I often times am
able to catch the DX cqing due to using the skimmer technology.

73,

Tim / N6WIN.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:30 PM, H Lawrence Serra <hlserra at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> For those operating multi/assisted from San Diego, there two useful
> skimmers covering our regional propagation:
>
> 1. WA7LNW is located in Utah, in an RFI quiet zone one mile high. Jack gets
> lots of spots the N6NC skimmer does not in all-band HF contests. You can log
> into his skimmer for telnet spots on the Reverse Beacon Network [
> http://www.reversebeacon.net/skimmers.php], or directly from Windows
> operating systems at:
>
> RUN
> CMD
> telnet 208.65.1.201 7300
>
> 2. N6NC skimmer: My skimmer is in a relatively high urban noise zone, but
> receives different propagation than WA7LNW's skimmer. (For instance, each
> skimmer shows entirely different spots for the CQWW 160m 'test, and N6NC
> shows better Pacific rim spots due to its location on the Pacific coast.)
> You can log into the N6NC skimmer for telnet spots through the Reverse
> Beacon Network addres above, or directly from Windows operating systems at:
>
> RUN
> CMD
> telnet n6ncskimmer.ath.cx 7300
>
> Enjoy.
>
> 73, Larry N6NC
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