[Skimmertalk] Skimmer spotting calling stations as well as cq's

[Pete Smith]

"CQing" in Skimmerspeak means any station that Skimmer determines to be 
soliciting callers - that means that keywords like CQ, TEST, SS, QRZ? 
and QRL? combined with a callsign in the same data stream will be 
flagged as "CQing". I'm not being precise, becauser only Alex knows 
enough to say, but that's the general idea.  It's not perfect, but it 
does a pretty good job of figuring out who's who.

By all means, use the checkbox.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 11/6/2009 8:35 PM, Barry N1EU wrote:
> I've got Skimmer configured to feed spots to my logging program. I'm
> finding that Skimmer is spotting not only stations calling cq, but
> stations answering cq's. Is there any control of the spotting
> algorithm or anything I can do to minimize this effect?
>
> I see the "do not send callsigns without cq" checkbox - I assume this
> means literally "cq", which won't work for a contest where the cq'er
> is more likely to send "test" or "ss".  Or does the term "cq" include
> other common forms of contest cq'ing?
>
> Any help or clarification is appreciated. (perhaps the extra spots are
> just part of this game)
>
> Tnx/73,
> Barry N1EU
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