[Skimmertalk] Decoding slow beacons on 10M ?

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Looking at the RBN web site, I see 100 10-meter beacon spots in the last 
7 minutes. There could be many more, of course. I think rather than code 
speed a more likely explanation is that the default configuration for CW 
Skimmer Server only decodes CW up to 70 KHz above the bottom of each 
band, and even with the de facto standard receiver, the Red Pitaya, the 
maximum all-mode coverage in a single band is only 182 KHz. To cover the 
area above 28200 KHz where many of the beacons hang out, operators would 
have to replace some other band with a second 10-meter center 
frequency.   As a result, coverage of 10M beacons has tended to be 
limited to RBN nodes where more than one receiver is in use.

Make sense?

73, Pete N4ZR

On 12/29/2022 11:05 AM, Andrew O'Brien wrote:
> I notice that CWS does not decode many of the beacons on 10M despite strong signals . Is this associated with the slow speed of the beacons ? Weak ham signals get decoded amazingly well when in regular ham QSO sections of the band , they are usually sending much faster .
>
> Andy K3UK
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