What Rudy said.
After every contest we (cluster owners) get hit with people complaining
about all the busted calls. (SSB, CW and RTTY) AD1C and others maintain
huge lists that we use to identify calls and spot them in the right
country, zone, county, etc. All the TO calls come to mind.
You do not want to open up the flood gates and allow the clusters to
spot everything. It would be a mess.
Skimmers work on matching up what it thinks it heard with what should or
could be real callsigns.
I guess the burden shifts to those that maintain these lists to
determine what to do with these entities.
RBN is just one piece of the puzzle for CW and RTTY which tie in and
back and forth between all the other participating clusters around the
world. These are all independent sources of information that get
filtered along the way. We as hams have asked them all to get better at
filtering out the bad spots.
It is not one person or RBN that determines what gets sent down over the
spotting networks. All the clusters do not necessarily play nice
together either.
It is not the end of the world if some of these entities are not
spotted. I sure read many posts where people should be tuning around
their radios on their own. Here is your chance.
Each contest has their own rules. It should be pretty clear how D1WW or
others like this will be handled.
W0MU
On 9/14/2016 8:57 AM, Rudy Bakalov via CQ-Contest wrote:
The issue at hand is technical, not political and any effort to turn it into a
political debate is misdirected and counterproductive.
The #1 complaint about RBN is busted calls. In order for CW/RTTY Skimmer and RBN to
improve the accuracy of decoded callsigns, the software uses a "language" that
describes the patter of valid callssigns. Obviously the source of such patterns comes
from IARU which in turn does not recognize D1. Chances are N1MM and other ham software
that looks for valid callsign patterns will label D1 as invalid as well unless someone
has already corrected it or the callsign is in the check partial database.
Rudy N2WQ
From: "kzerohb@gmail.com" <kzerohb@gmail.com>
To: "CQ-Contest@contesting.com" <CQ-Contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] "D1WW"
My comment “Let him play” is not in jest.
Each of us, individually, is responsible to our licensing authority for proper and legal operation of our radio station. (including D1WW)
No ham (nor their software) is responsible to adjudicate the proper and legal operation of any other stations. We have no diplomatic standing. (including K0HB or RBN)
The RBN has no regulatory standing as an “authority”. It is simply a slick tool to alert us to stations heard. I believe that it should simply “report what was sent”, and let the users as individuals independently act on that information. See 1) and 2).
73, de Hans, KØHB
"Just a boy and his radio"™
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