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
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 _______________________________________________ Skimmertalk mailing list Skimmertalk@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/skimmertalk