With respect Art, "wimps"? I would have stopped operating on Sunday in SS years ago if it weren't for the Assisted category - tqalk "Forecasting a totally non-radio ham radio" is no reason for oppos
Thanks, Dennis. You raise an interesting question - if you use spots only to see how *you* are getting out, and not to identify specific stations to call, is that assisted? I think I can do that wi
Ed, I have to quibble with your last paragraph. If you use the Available Mults & Qs window in N1MM+, and set it to show the newest spots at the top, then you can click there and almost always find s
Jeff, that's just plain nasty. Don't tell me that AA3B, K3WW, N3RD, and 50 others I could name don't hold themselves to the same standard in CWT as when they operate in "real" contests. Enough - thi
I thought everyone might find this set of predictions interesting. It was collected by ES5TV on this reflector 14 years ago. I don't know if the reflector allows attachments so if it doesn't, I'll p
In 2007, ES5TV compiled reflector users' predictions/guesses/wild-ass guesses about what contesting would look like ten years hence. It's now 4 years past his original time horizon, and I thought pe
We'll see... when NSA declassifies 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. I
As someone who was around for the general introduction of SSB in ham radio (can I really be THAT old?) this is nothing but more of the same. I also remember when #1 on the DXCC Honor Roll had a sing
As one of the organizers and operators of the RBN, I shudder at the thought of trying to manage an opt-out system. Our servers are already stressed during major contests, and the idea of passing ever
See you, and raise you 10 watts and grid modulation (Globe Scout, 1956 or thereabouts). Now there was a deterrent to phone contesting. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web serv
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
Interesting hypothesis about speed. I only looked back 100 spots, beginning at 0020Z on September 4. I can't discern any pattern, though, as to speed or signal strength. Steve was sending consiste
Last night was my first Sprint in 7 or 8 years, and the rust was showing. Fortunately, N1MM+ was a lot smarter than the op, so I didn't have to relearn all the tricks with the format of transmission
I have just published an article on this subject on the RBN blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. It is directed both to RBN node-ops and to users who wonder how to make it work better for them. Comm
We have all gotten a little spoiled on CW with the RBN, whose 170+ nodes spot everything. Just a reminder, then - Fort Meade has not yet released an SSB Skimmer, and until they do (write your Congre
No problem so long as you don't yourself use spots. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server at<http://beta.reversebeacon.net>. For spots, please use your favorite "retail" D
I don't understand, John. What are you worried about? 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server at<http://beta.reversebeacon.net>. For spots, please use your favorite "retail
I'd expect nothing less from you, Paul, given your long opposition to all technological innovation - fact is, most cluster software has set/nodx or the equivalent, to make sure no spots come your way
Why would you be "better off" just "leaving the cluster disconnected altogether"? Seems to me that for the other 50,000 or so participants who aren't in it to win, spotting is a real benefit. After
I'm a little perplexed myself, Paul. 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. With