[UK-CONTEST] Reverse Beacon Network Stats.

[Andy Cook, G4PIQ]

Indeed - congratulations to the M5E folks for a great score from a superb
site. They put together a very competitive station and it's hard work doing
that field-day style.

The analysis of the RBN spots is really interesting. There really is no
doubt that the stations in SW Europe had better propagation IMO. As an
example, CS2C (multi-single) made 4.85M points, and had 59, 55, 45 states on
40/10/160 compared to our 28, 54 and 35. We didn't miss THAT many mults
through being slack (though we undoubtedly missed a few!). Same applies, in
slightly less depth to CR6K and EE5E, and even TM6M from their super site
near Brest (which really is a remarkable score from so far North), but -
like M5E - they have a super-clear sea take-off to the US. 

Why didn't some of these big signals from CR and EA get skimmed? - I suspect
that they didn't have their CQ messages set correctly. The default Win-Test
settings including speed up of the CQ and TEST elements of the CQ message
and these are known to make skimmer much less reliable. From a quick
experiment, you also really need the call in the message twice.

73,

Andy, G4PIQ


-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of brian coyne
Sent: 23 February 2012 20:48
To: UK Contest
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Reverse Beacon Network Stats.

I think that we must recognise what a remarkable job the M5E team pulled off
in the ARRL contest last weekend. For an Ad Hoc operation to push the M6T
boys .,who have an established well equipped stn, so closely deserves the
highest praise.
 
The RBN network statistics posted on 3830 today show interesting comparisons
of the two stns on different bands and the overall total spots for each were
pretty close. Both can be well pleased that they are placed in the top 20
'most spotted' and the continental breakdowns do not really bear out Andy's
impression that south west eu were enjoying the better propagation, I think
there is only 1 CT mentioned who is at bottom of the list and no EA's at
all. What is surprising is just how far behind in 'spots' are the EA8's who,
when we listen. appear to have propagation to NA all of the time, so why are
the beacon network stns not hearing them ?
 
http://reversebeacon.blogspot.com/2012/02/arrl-dx-cw-stats-thanks-n6tv.html
 
73  Brian 5B4AIZ / C4Z.
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