The KCDX Pileup Tape was again a very interesting test and a whole lot of
fun. Thanks guys!
After watching the SDR and Contest Forums, I'm firmly convinced that SDR, in
some form, will become widely used in contesting.
As far as a training or fun test-of-skills, How about an S&P test rather
than a pileup test? One of the great arts being lost from contesting is
the ability to scan a band and find stations (Primarily due to packet).
Imagine this: Each contestant has a laptop with an SDR application
running. They are all connected to the same receiver, but can tune
independantly. It should be fairly easy to generate a known set of
stations CW calling, on random frequencies, throughout the
passband. It could include some pileups, random CQs, etc. Again, the
idea would be to gather as many possible calls as possible in 5 minutes...
A 5-minute virtual contest. What a blast that would be.
73, Gerry, W1VE
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Andrei Stchislenok <asnp3d@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Doug - Congrats!
> You are collecting now IC7000's, next Radio should be IC-7800 FOR YOU ;)
> I am also proud for myself - sitting right hand from you during the
> Contest,
> hihi.
>
> Keep on going Doug!
> 73's Andrei NP3D/W2 (steady 29) just got home from DAYTON)
>
>
> 2008/5/18, Tree <tree@kkn.net>:
> >
> >
> > K9GY reported:
> >
> > > The skimmer (supposedly) copied 31 calls. Maybe the skimmer was
> drinking
> > > too?
> >
> > An interesting test might be to edit the pileup tape - so that all of the
> > calls are sent in one 10 second interval - using the same pitches they
> > are at in the tape.
> >
> > In that case - I would say the humans might get 5 or 6 calls - if they
> were
> > really lucky. Technically - the skimmer should still get almost the same
> > 31 it got before - maybe losing a few calls that were too close to each
> > other in frequency.
> >
> > Tree N6TR
> >
> > PS: Congrats to Doug and Rich on their results.
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