[Skimmertalk] Mobile spotting

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

The skimmer software looks for certain patterns of symbols representing a
callsign.  It also looks for "CQ or TEST" to distinguish "runners" from
"callers".  The callsign patterns it recognizes are documented in this file:

http://cms.reversebeacon.net/sites/cms.reversebeacon.net/files/2018/07/13/Patt3Ch.lst

In your case, N0AC matches one of these patterns, but N0AC/County does not.

+ N0@
+ N0@@
+ N0@@@
  N0@@@@
  N0@@@@@

The "+" presents the "preferred" patterns and the "@" represents a number,
letter or slash.

If you want to get spotted, send CQ or TEST and your callsign *twice*, e.g.

CQ N0AC N0AC County TEST

If you send

CQ N0AC/County N0AC/County TEST

CW Skimmer will probably not recognize any part of the string as a
callsign, and you will rarely get spotted.

73,
Bob, N6TV

On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 12:18 PM William Hendrick via Skimmertalk <
skimmertalk at contesting.com> wrote:

>
> I'm always looking to improve my QSO party mobile operation. It was
> pointed out to me that RBN only spotted me three times Sat during the MoQSO
> party after 7 hours of running. I noted that some of the other mobiles were
> spotted multiple times. I usually ID as N0AC/county name and I wonder if
> the RBN doesn't like that for spotting purposes. I'm just wondering if
> there would be a better way to ID during these mobile county runs.
> Bill, N0AC
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