[Skimmertalk] Automated periodic CQ & QSY?

[Stan Stockton]

The solution to all this if someone wants to gather propagation statistics would be to outfit the 18 (?) beacon stations with receivers and have them receive spots when they are not transmitting and feed all the data into one database for analysis.

Stan, K5GO

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On Apr 2, 2013, at 3:41 PM, W3OA <w3oa at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> There is a work around for this.
> 
> If he signs with a /B on his call sign Aggregator will assume it's a beacon and forward the spot to the RBN.
> 
> Of course Skimmer must be set up to send non CQ spots for this to work.
> 
> Dick, W3OA
> 
> On 4/2/2013 7:55 AM, Vladimir Sidarau wrote:
>> Transmitting CQ with no intention to solicit a QSO is an unacceptable
>> practice, if not clearly illegal. Please don't consider this.
>> 
>> 73,
>> 
>> Vladimir VE3IAE
>> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Skimmertalk [mailto:skimmertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
>> W3OA
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 6:02 AM
>> To: skimmertalk at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [Skimmertalk] Automated periodic CQ & QSY?
>> 
>> Hi Rick -
>> 
>> This could be a relatively simple programming task, depending on what radio
>> you plan to use.
>> 
>> Have you got one in mind?
>> 
>> 73 - Dick, W3OA
>> 
>> 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
>>> 
>>>   
>>> 
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