The K3NA receiving beacon seems pretty popular. Many people have written encouragin email (thanks) and the history file at the station shows connections from all over Europe, North America, Australia
I'm a little concerned about this. I'm not so sure it is a good idea. When we start having multiple receivers without time delay stationed all over the world, the potential for abuse is huge. Anyone
SKYPE works fine for me from the LINE input, just select it in the "WINDOWS Recording Control" How do you get SKYPE to Automatically Answer? When my PC is Called I have to Accept the call manually. P
I am with Tom on this one. About the time I am trying to work a station close to one of these beacon receivers and several guys start RRR'ing this thing and I can't hear my DX station... I am going
Tom W8JI brings up some interesting points. I thought about the case of people using distant receivers to work DX that they would not otherwise be able to work. That's one reason why the receiving be
Hi Paul -- Thanks for the tip on line input. Will it transmit stereo from the line input? If so, that would allow me to hook two antennas, one each to the main and sub receiver. Auto-answer: Opps...
I am not sure that I agree with Tom (yet) on this one. rooms and DX clusters that allow people who can't hear but transmit well to work DX they would never work through radio alone. Once the rule was
Tom hit the nail on the head. Access to a global network of remote receiving sites will make DXCC meaningless as well as negate the effort and resources that many have put into their stations. 73...D
attempting have random receiver should be placed outside traditionally active areas of the bands. There may be a point of concern here. However, if one were to limit the number of simultaneous users
I think I should give up ham radio... What is going on here? DX-Cluster, Echolink, Skype beacons? The next step will be contesting with remote controlled receivers and $ generators on remote rocks by
K3NA: an exotic location. Here's a really novel ultra high-tech idea...try a CQ. Saturday morning I thought the band was dead but decided to CQ. In the next 15 minutes I worked 5 JA's (including JH1G
Recently, W3GH posted about working a new one in SE Asia, one that had not been heard for years at his QTH. How would he have felt if, just as the DX started sending to him, some one opened up with a
Best idea yet. And not one can possible criticize it -- or can they? Tod, KØTO _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contest
I share Tom's concern about "cheating", but there are so many ways of doing that already - particularly "spotting" on the web - that I think the horse has long left the stable. I've never used "spots
At first I thought this Skype reverse beacon was a wonderful idea and told Eric so. Then the demons started, multiple receivers all over the world? And what if somebody is just sending his call witho
Yes, I agree, this is almost as bad as people who move to the country where there is no QRN. What challenge is there in that? I understand that some of these guys can actually hear the DX they are ca
people that yes, I would like Whenever anyone places a receiver in a primary part of the band and allows remote access to that receiver, two things can occur. First, people can use it to hear someth
W8JI: transmissions in crowded areas of the band. This may have already been stated but W3GH reported 9M2AX on 1831.5 around 2320z when the band was wide open to Europe. I was listening at the time a
I can see some utility in having "reverse beacons". I don't really care about cheating, as those who would cheat will always find a way. What concerns me is QRM, and the following suggestion I find s
Not presenting an opinion here, but a mere fact: Skype does not provide multicasting at automatic answering. In other words; only 1 listener can automatically connect the RX experiment of K3NA at a