Just a quick reply to Dick's question - very early on, Alex added a
filter explicitly to prevent self-spotting, based on a match between the
spotted callsign and the spotter's call, as entered in the CW Skimmer
software. Granted, this would be quite easy to circumvent, for a
station that was determined to cheat in this way, but that has *always*
been true using the traditional DX cluster system, since no
authentication of spotters' identities is done.
73, Pete N4ZR
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On 6/1/2012 3:33 AM, Dick Green WC1M wrote:
> ...[Hmmm... are stations with dedicated*local* Skimmer radios that send spots
> to the RBN filtering out their own calls?]
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