[Skimmertalk] 6m spots to RBN

[N6EV - Paul Carreiro]

Trevor,
That is correct.  RBN is accepting all inputs on 6 meters, which 
allows beacons to be spotted.  RBN will determine if a non-CQing 
station is in the beacon band, and if so, report it as a beacon.

I have my RB node monitoring 50.000 to 50.127 reporting all stations 
heard with normal callsign validation.  Unfortunately, it still kicks 
out an occasional false spot.  Case in point, this morning during the 
1200Z hour, my node spotted an EA4 CQing twice with 1dB signal.  An 
impossible propagation path right. It looks like it decoded a random 
local digital stream to a valid callsign.   I could add the frequency 
to the notch list, but it's right in the middle of our beacon band 
here, and happens to be a popular spot, so I'd end up masking quite a 
few potential beacons.  I may bump the aggregator back up to 
aggressive validation.

73
Paul  N6EV
http://www.N6EV.com/


At 02:17 AM 4/21/2012, Trevor, G0KTN wrote:
>I'm aware of the note in Aggregator that  "The server wants HF cq 
>spots and all
>regular beacon spots".
>Assuming that 6m is not classed as HF can anyone confirm that the 
>RBN is currently
>accepting all 6m skimmer spots without restriction - by which I mean 
>everything that
>appears on 6m gets posted to the RBN and the usual hf identifiers of 
>cq, de, test etc
>do not apply.