[Skimmertalk] AF5OT/B spots in the Reverse Beacon Network

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

Jim,

Your 10 meter beacon has been spotted by the Reverse Beacon Network many
times since Monday, September 26th.

A summary is available at this link:

https://foc.dj1yfk.de/activity/AF5OT/B

However, the spots are summarized in bar chart format, which may be
difficult for blind hams to process.  The text summary says;

Total hours (last 365 days) with at least one RBN spot: 40 (0.1h per day).
Hours spotted in EU: 0, NA: 36, AS: 0, SA: 0, AF: 0, OC: 8


So, your 10 meter beacon has been spotted in Oceania a few times and North
America many other times, but never spotted in any other continents, which
is expected given the current conditions.

To get more detail about exactly where your beacon was spotted on any
particular day, go to a link like this:

http://www.reversebeacon.net/spotsPerCallAndSkimmer/20160926.zip

Inside the Zip file is a text summary for every station spotted on that
day, which looks like this:

DX Call    Skimmer     No. Spots
---------- ---------- ----------
AF5OT/B    KM3T                5
AF5OT/B    W4KKN               3

Perhaps DJ1YFK can display this information in text format on his web site,
whenever you click on a date in the calendar area at the top.

73,
Bob, N6TV
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:        Reverse Beacon Net
Date:   Sun, 16 Oct 2016 14:25:58 -0600
From:   Jim AF5OT Heath <af5ot.beacon.1 at gmail.com>
To:     letters at arrl.org
CC:     N4ZR at comcast.net, N0AX at arrl.org



Hello, the reverse beacon net article (Oct. 2016) catch my eye. I am a
blind ham radio operator who just recently put into service a 10 meter
beacon (28.219MHz CW) The article by Pete Smith (N4ZR) and Ward Silver
N0AX) was quite informative in regards to how many people really hunt for
beacons. I did not realize that this information about beacons was utilized
by so many entities. I was also surprised to see that there is software
written for beacon searching.

Since I am blind I receive the  QST magazine via The Talking Book Program
by the National Library of Congress. If you check out my QRZ web page you
will see the information on my beacon I would appreciate any contacts about
my beacon at this email address.

Kudos to Pete and Ward on this article.

V73's
Jim Heath
AF5OT
El Paso, Texas

P.S. Many thanks to Sean Gardner KD6CUB for his help in making this project
work. Happy hunting everyone! ! !
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