[Skimmertalk] Aggregated Telnet feed of all active skimmer receivers

[Pete Smith]

Dave, that's amazing!

73, Pete N4ZR

The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststations.com
The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com


On 4/13/2010 3:08 AM, Dave AA6YQ wrote:
> If you're interested in using the Reverse Beacon Network to hunt for needed
> DX, take a look at
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> <http://www.dxlabsuite.com/RBN/index.htm>
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>      73,
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>            Dave, AA6YQ
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> Message: 2
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> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:52:25 -0400
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> From: Pete Smith<n4zr at contesting.com>
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> Subject: [Skimmertalk] A new "DX cluster" experience for contesters
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> To: skimmertalk at contesting.com
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> The Reverse Beacon Network (http://reversebeacon.net) has now made a
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> Telnet feed of the aggregated output of all currently active RBN Skimmer
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> receivers available in real time at telnet.reversebeacon.net port 7000.
>
>    Thanks to Rick, K4TD, for making the server available, and to Felipe,
>
> PY1NB and Nick, F5VIH for the programming effort.
>
>
>
> So big deal, you say?  Well, before you blow it off, take a look at the
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> flow of spots, even on a normal weekday.  Run them through appropriate
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> filters to remove duplicates, restrict spots to your country, continent,
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> or call area, or whatever, and use them to populate the bandmap of your
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> favorite contest logging software.  I think you'll be amazed.
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>
>
> This feed offers one huge advantage for contesters, because the RBN
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> spots *every* station it hears, not just the ones that someone,
>
> somewhere thinks are worthy of being spotted.  It is also listening on
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> all bands, all the time, at world-wide sites.
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>
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> ONE CAUTION -- Precisely because it spots everything, usually multiple
>
> times, it would be disastrous if someone were to feed the RBN Telnet
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> server into the normal DX cluster network.  If this happens, the server
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> may have to be shut down, so *please* don't do it.
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>
>
> --
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> 73, Pete N4ZR
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>
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> The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststations.com
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> The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at
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> reversebeacon.blogspot.com
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