[Skimmertalk] [RBN-OPS] Anomalous skews on 10 meters

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Very nice idea, Brendan - I didn't know there were so many 
GPS-disciplined oscillators out there.  I'd love to do this - after the 
contest.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 2/15/2013 5:36 PM, Brendan Minish wrote:
> Some of us (well myself anyway :-) have GPS locked reference
> Oscillators. My QS1R is not locked to this but my K3 is. I know my TX
> frequency to within a fraction of 1Hz, even on 10M
>
> perhaps if a few of us with good Transmit accuracy were to come on 10M
> at some pre-agreed times and make some CQ calls on even KHZ frequencies
> we could establish which Skimmers were a little off and which ones are
> accurate.
>
> We could repeat on 15M (or lower band) for a second set of data points
> This might also lead to some QSO's which is never bad thing
>
>
> Just a thought ?
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 17:18 -0500, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
>>
>> We're seeing some very anomalous data on frequency calibration on 10
>> meters - numerous stations which previously have been tightly
>> calibrated are being reported as having +0.8 skews.  While we try to
>> figure out what is going on, please don't waste time recalibrating,
>> unless you have specific reason to believe that your calibration has
>> changed.
>> -- 
>>
>> 73, Pete N4ZR
>> Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at
>> http://reversebeacon.net,
>> blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com.
>> For spots, please go to your favorite
>> ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node.
>>
>>
>>