[Skimmertalk] placing calls on skimmer display from external source?

[David Gilbert]

I suggested exactly that to Alex a few months ago and he replied that he 
couldn't imagine why anyone would want something like that.  I told him 
I'd try to sample other opinion on that so I posted the idea to this 
reflector asking for comments and got no replies at all except for one 
private (favorable) comment.

Then I posted a query to the CQ-Contest reflector asking whether it 
would be possible (for unassisted operation) to have N1MM display telnet 
spots from CW Skimmer on the N1MM bandmaps but for N1MM to blank the 
callsign ... that immediately got me publicly accused by K5ZD, K7ZD, and 
a couple of others as "trying to subvert the rules".

I still think it would be a desirable capability but my experience 
trying to drum up support for it has been considerably less than favorable.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 12/20/2010 4:10 PM, Steve London wrote:
> Another possibility for VE3NEA to consider is reporting blind spots to the
> Skimmer telnet interface...something like:
>
> DX de SKIMMER: 14020.1 BLIND
>
> Combine that with a yet-to-be developed N1MM feature that would only write the
> BLIND spot to the N1MM bandmap if there wasn't already a valid callsign on the
> bandmap on the Skimmer-reported frequency.
>
> 73,
> Steve, N2IC