I wonder if those whose calls were mis-decoded were not looking at
spots. (Even though there is no unassisted category in the CWops Open.)
Perhaps those who plan to operate unassisted in other contests should
run a test before the contest to make sure this isn't happening.
73,
Scott K9MA
On 9/5/2021 8:10 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
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
specifically noted, to avoid embarrassment, but here's the story:
Stations that left insufficient space in a CQ between "CWO" or "TEST"
and the start of their callsign were "rewarded" with spots for ON and
OK or TN (for example) instead of their real N and K prefixes.
Stations that inserted slightly additional spaces between letters in
their suffix (this seems to have been particularly prevalent with last
letters like "E" and "I") found their callsigns truncated (with the
last letter left off)'.
If you think this might have been happening to you, you can test it by
searching on the beta RBN web site for possibly truncated or expanded
versions of your call. You can even use a wildcard (*) at
beta.reversebeacon.net/main.php to search for all the possible
additions - some won't work because they result in imaginary
prefixes. Personally, I was delighted to learn that despite a lot of
running, my call was not miscopied in this way by the RBN. My CQs
were all machine-sent, which may explain it.
--
Scott K9MA
k9ma@sdellington.us
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