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

[Lee Sawkins]

Filtering of duplicates on my cluster is done on a per user basis after running the spots through each user's filters.
 
Lee  

----- Original Message -----
From: Pete Smith <n4zr at contesting.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 12:40 pm
Subject: Re: [Skimmertalk] How did your Skimmer Server computer do in CQWW
To: skimmertalk at contesting.com

> 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.comThe 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<tberry1 at triad.rr.com>
> > 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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