[Skimmertalk] Comment field for skimmer spots with erroneous information?

Tue Sep 20 06:36:51 EDT 2016

Try going to ve7cc node and search for spots during that time.  or ask ve7cc if he has log files he can search.  It could be there is someone who has written something that grabs spots from given calls and adds the comment to ‘help’ them out.

David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web: http://wiki.k1ttt.net <http://wiki.k1ttt.net/> 
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://k1ttt.net:7373

From: Brian Moran [mailto:brianmo at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 22:41
To: k1ttt at arrl.net; skimmertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Skimmertalk] Comment field for skimmer spots with erroneous information?

I checked the zipped CSV files from reversebeacon.net -- the comments are not in there. 

However, by the time they were emitted by VE7CC.NET (the packet cluster we were logged in to with N1MM during the contest), we'd see a line SIMILAR to this:

DX de K1TTT-#:   21060.9  N7PP         CW 11 dB 28 WPM CQ NPOTA PK01  2216Z

(that one is NOT real)

I didn't have the presence of mind to screenshot it during the contest. Today, sending CQ in the same way we did over the weekend, we cannot reproduce the issue.

I note that some spots coming out have both the skimmer information and the NCDXF BEACON information. Where is "NCDXF BEACON" text being inserted in the process?

DX de DF4UE-#:   18110.0  OA4B         CW 02 dB 22 WPM NCDXF BEACON   2236Z
DX de KM3T-#:    18110.0  YV5B         CW 14 dB 22 WPM NCDXF BEACON   2236Z

On Monday, September 19, 2016 3:20 PM, David Robbins <k1ttt at arrl.net> wrote:

How about some specific examples.  I searched my arcluster log for both 9/17 and 9/18 for "npota pk01" and got only one hit with your call on the 18th... and it was not a skimmer spot:
GB7BAA->DX de KK4KHS:    14287.0  N7PP        WA Pierce NPOTA PK01          1905Z

There was only one other on the 18th that was also not a skimmer spot:
VE3EY-7->DX de K4BSB:      7217.0  KE4MU        NPOTA PK01 Blue Ridge in NC    1901Z

On the 17th I see a few for k4swl but none are skimmers.
IK8HJC-6->DX de K8RAT:    14291.0  K4SWL        NPOTA PK01 Blue Ridge Parkway/ 1557Z
IW5ECF-6->DX de K8RAT:      7278.0  K4SWL        NPOTA PK01. Blue Ridge Parkway 1625Z
GB7BAA->DX de WD8RIF:    7278.0  K4SWL        NPOTA PK01+TR10                1629Z
VE3EY-7->DX de K8RAT:      7278.0  K4SWL        NPOTA PK01 Blue Ridge + TR10 O 1631Z

David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web: http://wiki.k1ttt.net <http://wiki.k1ttt.net/> 
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://k1ttt.net:7373

-----Original Message-----
From: Skimmertalk [mailto:skimmertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Brian Moran via Skimmertalk
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 21:33
To: skimmertalk at contesting.com
Subject: [Skimmertalk] Comment field for skimmer spots with erroneous information?

Last weekend when operating N7PP in the Salmon Run (Washington QSO Party), we noticed that we were being spotted as NPOTA PK01 in the spots that were originating from the various skimmer nodes. Some callers noticed too, and commented about it in their manual re-spot comments like "NOT NPOTA".  I note that some NCDXF Beacon spots say "NCDXF Beaon", but I see that was a feature added to skimmer.

Our CQ message was "CQ SR N7PP N7PP", or sometimes "CQ WAQP N7PP N7PP", if that matters.

spots shown on reversebeacon.net don't show the comment field, apparently, or the information is blank.
spots shown while telnet'ing into ve7cc DOES show the comments field, and NPOTA PK01 was being generated with spots originating from many different skimmers.
In trying to troubleshoot this, I've read the presentations about "reversebeacon network and me", and examined the aggregator documentation; a couple of the information source mentioned in the documentation appear down now, btw. I haven't had any success figuring out where this information comes from. 

Is the skimmer spot comment information originated in the skimmer configuration files, the aggegator information files, or some other location?
How does the information get entered? How can one change it?  Is there a special format message we can use that will set this information if  matched (e.g. a perl-ish regex like CQ (.*) ({CALL}+ ) )  

Thanks,Brian N9ADG
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