I want to cover 60M, as there is a lot of FT8 activity there. I also want to cover 6M, where FT8 and MSK-144 are most of the activity. CW and digital on 6M take two slices, as they are too far spread in frequency to get on one slice. I can skim CW, FT8 and MSK144 on 6M, with a few more VAC channels and WSJT-X instances and dump the MS data to PSKReporter, if nowhere else..
I understand there is some digital activity on 600M. It’s a SDR…No reason not to put a slice down there, too, and see what’s happening.
Lots of sandboxes to play in…
Ted
K9IMM
From: Andy KU7T [mailto:ku7t@ku7t.org]
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2019 9:41 PM
To: Ted Gisske; 'SkimmerTalk Reflector'
Subject: Re: [Skimmertalk] Anyone got this to work?
I would consider adding a second computer, if there was more benefits. Where to do you have significant other spots/bands that are not covered yet by 12 x CW and 8 x FT8?
73
Andy
KU7T
From: Ted Gisske <gisske@offex.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2019 5:47 PM
To: 'Andy KU7T'; 'SkimmerTalk Reflector'
Subject: RE: [Skimmertalk] Anyone got this to work?
As I sit here and watch the I7 CPU top out during decodes of 8 FT8 bands and 10 CW bands, and the FT8 DT numbers creep up to about a second of latency, I think the obvious thing to do is park another I7 box next to the current one and run entirely separate software chains. That is the inner beauty of having the RP on Ethernet. It is amazing to sit here and watch the network getting exercised at a steady 100+ MB.
Ted
K9IMM
From: Andy KU7T [mailto:ku7t@ku7t.org]
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2019 7:33 PM
To: Ted Gisske; 'SkimmerTalk Reflector'
Subject: Re: [Skimmertalk] Anyone got this to work?
I tried the same but it seems to me FT8Start cannot be multiplied. I tried but got errors indicating it trying skimming the same bands again. I duplicated them same way as SkimSrv...
I gave up as my CPU is between 70 and 100 percent anyway.
Andy
KU7T
From: Skimmertalk <skimmertalk-bounces@contesting.com> on behalf of Ted Gisske <gisske@offex.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2019 3:49:25 PM
To: 'SkimmerTalk Reflector'
Subject: [Skimmertalk] Anyone got this to work?
I got my new RP-16 on Tuesday and, after a lot of thrashing, have it successfully skimming CW on both receivers and ready to report to the RBN. At one point this AM, it was doing ~3K spots/hr, although I kept them local.
I also have it successfully skimming FT8 simultaneously on one receiver. I’m getting greedy, though, and want to skim FT8 on both receivers. I don’t think aggregator cares what receiver the spots come from, as long as they come from a discrete UDP port. I should be able to run as many instances of WSJT-X as I need. FT8Startup seems like it is flexible enuf to run two instances.
The difficulty seems to be getting audio to WSJT-X off the second receiver. I’m not sure how, or even if it is possible, to run separate instances of VAC and CWSL_WAVE_SSB. W3OA is dubious, and he is certainly far more qualified than me to make that call, but I am curious if anyone has lashed together a hack to make this happen?
73,
Ted
K9IMM