I disagree Pete.
My call was never spotted by any skimmer. But it was "incorrectly" spotted
41 times.
Sounds like 100% failure to me.
73
Jim W7RY
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Smith N4ZR
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 4:57 AM
To: Jim W7RY ; RTTY Contesting
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Skimmer spots dropped at VE7CC cluster node
Jim, the numbers don't bear that out. Typical busted calls rates with
RTTY Skimmer are in the 1.4-1.7 percent range. It would be nice to get
them down into the same range as CW Skimmer (< 1 percent), but I can't
imagine what the technical problems would be. I am reasonably confident
that VE7CC has put his finger on one problem - RTTY signals tend to be
much more closely "zero beat" (CQer and caller) than CW signals. Also,
there are many more possible Baudot characters than CW letters,
increasing the risk of miscopies due to interference.
Another thing that people seem to forget is what I call the "crowd
effect." If you have 50 Skimmers copying the same transmission at a
given time, and each of them has a 1percent error rate, there's a 50
percent chance that one of the Skimmers will miscopy.
This is where tools like cluster-side filters come into play. I believe
that VE7CC and AR Cluster V6/CT1BOH both use similar mathematical
techniques to sort out the busts from the correct copies. They do work.
It might be interesting to know what the average Signal-to-Noise ratio
was on the busted spots of your call. There are a large number of
Skimmers in the eastern US and in Europe, and the "competition" may have
been a lot louder than you in those "markets" when you were being busted
a lot.
73, Pete N4ZR
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On 10/5/2015 7:08 AM, Jim W7RY wrote:
Probably not. Using FSK generated by DOOK (5 KHZ AFSK) and converted to
FSK
from 2-Tone.
Icom IC7600
What it really looks like is the skimmer software has poor decode. If you
look closely at the busted calls, the calls are very similar. So more of
poor decode than too close to someone. LOTS of busted calls are off by one
letter.
Am I calling your baby ugly? If the shoe fits....
Thanks
73
Jim W7RY
-----Original Message----- From: Pete Smith N4ZR
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 3:36 AM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Skimmer spots dropped at VE7CC cluster node
Or conceivably because of less than perfect AFSK (bit jitteror
distortion from overdrive?)
73, Pete N4ZR
Download the new N1MM Logger+ at
<http://N1MM.hamdocs.com>. Check
out the Reverse Beacon Network at
<http://reversebeacon.net>, now
spotting RTTY activity worldwide.
For spots, please use your favorite
"retail" DX cluster.
On 10/4/2015 9:18 PM, Lee Sawkins wrote:
You get busted because you are too close in frequency and call to W7RN or
W7DRM and they were there first.
73 Lee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim W7RY" <w7ry@centurytel.net>
To: "Lee Sawkins" <ve7cc@shaw.ca>, rtty@contesting.com
Cc: dezrat@outlook.com
Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2015 11:41:44 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Skimmer spots dropped at VE7CC cluster node
So why am I in the busted list 41 times?
73
Jim W7RY
-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Sawkins
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 6:19 PM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Cc: dezrat@outlook.com
Subject: [RTTY] Skimmer spots dropped at VE7CC cluster node
These links may be interesting to some of you. These are the typical
rejected spots of any CC Cluster.
RTTY skimmer spots are considered valid if spotted by ONE Skimmer. RTTY
Skimmers are generally more accurate than CW and there are simply not
enough
of them to use 2 or more Skimmers to validate them. CW spots are valid if
spotted by 2 or more Skimmers.
Here is the list of dropped Skimmer spots by the VE7CC-1 cluster.
If you connect to the RBN directly, you will receive all these spots as
well
as the good ones.
Many times there are two calls in succession that are dropped for RTTY
calls. I am receiving data from both the RBN and DL4RCK for redundancy.
Usually they both spot the same RTTY calls.
Most columns are self explanatory.
The number directly before a skimmer call is a quality number. It is the
number of times a call has been detected as correct minus the number of
times it is busted. When the number decreases below 5, it is no longer
considered valid. If the active call has not been spotted in 12 minutes
it
is also no longer considered valid. In one place, for 9A1A the quality
number is over 2000. This means 9A1A has been spotted over 2000 times on
the
same frequency!
"Sysop added" means I have manually added a call to the list because it
is
busted all the time and is never good.
http://www.bcdxc.org/ve7cc/ccc/Busted-26-Sep-2015.txt
http://www.bcdxc.org/ve7cc/ccc/Busted-27-Sep-2015.txt
Lee
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