[Skimmertalk] Automated periodic CQ & QSY?

[David Gilbert]

Did you think this through at all?.  Why would you even consider doing 
this?  There's no way you'd be checking to see if the frequency was 
already being used so you'd be causing illegal QRM, not to mention 
annoying all those who actually tried to respond to your bogus CQ.  The 
bad impressions you would heap upon yourself and CW Skimmer users in 
general would be considerable.

Besides, that's pretty much what the automated beacon system is for.  
VE3NEA, the same guy who wrote CW Skimmer, offers an application called 
Faros that cycles through the bands, measures the S/N of each beacon 
over time, and plots the results.  It works with almost any rig with CAT 
control capability.  I don't have any connection with VE2NEA but for 
only 25 USD it seems like a much better way to get what you want.

http://www.dxatlas.com/Faros/

*Features:*

  * continuously monitors 18 NCDXF beacons on five bands;
  * automatically detects the presence of the beacon signals, even in
    QRM and noise;
  * measures the signal-to-noise ratio, the QSB index, and the
    propagation delay of the signal;
  * automatically identifies long path openings based on the signal delay;
  * has a real-time display of band conditions;
  * maintains a long-term history of beacon observations;
  * generates signal charts at regular intervals in a form suitable for
    Web publishing;
  * generates observation logs optimized for automatic analysis.


Dave   AB7E



On 4/1/2013 5:47 AM, Rick Kiessig wrote:

Does anyone happen to know of some software that can periodically call
CQ a few times on one frequency, then QSY to another band and repeat?
Something like a band-agile beacon? Maybe using WinKey?

I'm looking for a way to automate the TX side of using Skimmer and the
resulting RBN data to measure propagation.

73, Rick ZL2HAM