[Skimmertalk] Skimmer and Live Audio

[Pete Smith]

Dave is correct on all counts, except that there is NO control on antennas, 
sensitivity, qth quality (industrial noise), etc.  So any report is purely 
relative to other stations received at the same Skimmer, and, as he points 
out, noise sensitive.  I spent a while trying to work my own signal 
comparison with OY3JE, whose 20M antenna evidently was pointed toward 
Europe, putting me off the side.  He didn't hear me at all - how dismaying!!!

I hope to have an omni vertical skimmer antenna here sometime soon.

73, Pete

At 11:16 AM 12/9/2008, David Gilbert wrote:

>I've been assuming that "SNR" actually means signal/noise ratio, and not 
>absolute signal strength.  Is that correct?  If so, the SNR displayed by 
>CW SKimmer could have quite a bit a variability on the low bands from one 
>instant of time to another simply because of storm static hundreds of 
>miles from the receiving station, regardless of differences at the 
>transmitting end.
>
>Also ... is it pretty much assumed that the Skimmers feeding DX Watch all 
>use omnidirectional antennas?
>
>73,
>Dave   AB7E
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>Pete Smith wrote:
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>>Of course, for any given station noise and antenna gain and directivity 
>>all would affect the absolute numbers.
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>>73, Pete N4ZR
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