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

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Yes, I think this is mistaken.  The only items that CW Skimmer or 
Skimmer Server *ever* putin the Comments field are the mode and the CW 
speed.  Of course, if you're watching the RBN on your local cluster and 
someone posts a spot with other comments, it may not be obvious. All 
Skimmer spots have a -# at the end opf the spotting station's call.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 9/19/2016 6:20 PM, David Robbins 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
> 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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