[Skimmertalk] How did your Skimmer Server computer do in CQWW

[Pete Smith]

Already got one request for clarification, so.... The ARC server filters 
I was referring to are all user-defined - in other words, if you don't 
set any filters you will get the full, unfiltered stream.

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,
spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 AND now
at arcluster.reversebeacon.net port 7000



On 11/29/2011 8:12 AM, David Robbins wrote:
> the arc server filters the spots to other nodes???  and you said before that there is some kind of mode filter outside of contests...  how can i get the complete unfiltered rbn feed both in and out of contests??
>
> Nov 29, 2011 07:50:23 AM, n4zr at contesting.com wrote:
>
> The reason for the RBN's transmission of duplicate spots is simply to
> permit users to make their own decisions about which spots to use. Both
> of the RBN Telnet servers provide filtering by spotter location, and the
> ARC server employs a "Unique>2" filter that does not forward a spot
> unless at least 3 Skimmers have heard it; taken together with spotter
> location, this seems to work well to keep the volume actually arriving
> at the user's computer to a manageable level.
>
> 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,
> spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 AND now
> at arcluster.reversebeacon.net port 7000
>
>
>
> On 11/28/2011 7:09 PM, Lee Sawkins wrote:
>> The CQ only spots from VE7CC are partially filtered to remove duplicates. You will never see a spot for the same station twice in a row. This is the most common type of duplicate the RBN sends out. VE7CC's Skimmer spots are intended to provide complete coverage without requiring user's computers to do all the duplicate filtering.
>>
>> Lee
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Tom Berry
>> Date: Monday, November 28, 2011 4:56 pm
>> Subject: Re: [Skimmertalk] How did your Skimmer Server computer do in CQWW
>> To: skimmertalk at contesting.com
>>
>>> That should have been Aggregator not Aggressor.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/28/2011 11:53 AM, Tom Berry wrote:
>>>> One problem I did see was that not all my spots were being
>>> reported to
>>>> RBN. I was monitoring it on my Aggressor list and
>>> VE7CC. The spots
>>>> coming from VE7CC were far short of the one I saw in
>>> Aggressor. I had
>>>> the "only spot CQ" set on.
>>>>
>>>>
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