I ran into an interesting phenomenon using RBN spots in the CWO. Several stations were repeatedly mis-decoded by the RBN, and I think the cause probably had to do with spacing. I have BCC'd those I specifically noted, to avoid embarrassment, but here's the story:
Stations that left insufficient space in a CQ between "CWO" or "TEST" and the start of their callsign were "rewarded" with spots for ON and OK or TN (for example) instead of their real N and K prefixes. Stations that inserted slightly additional spaces between letters in their suffix (this seems to have been particularly prevalent with last letters like "E" and "I") found their callsigns truncated (with the last letter left off)'.
If you think this might
have been happening to you, you can test it by searching on the
beta RBN web site for possibly truncated or expanded versions of
your call. You can even use a wildcard (*) at
beta.reversebeacon.net/main.php to search for all the possible
additions - some won't work because they result in imaginary
prefixes. Personally, I was delighted to learn that despite a
lot of running, my call was not miscopied in this way by the
RBN. My CQs were all machine-sent, which may explain it.
-- 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server at <http://beta.reversebeacon.net>. For spots, please use your favorite "retail" DX cluster.