[Skimmertalk] Skimmer Experience 160M and 10M

[Joe Hetrick]

I still think it's useful to see who is calling CQ as well as who is  
calling him, though, I think it really depends on how folks intend to  
use Skimmer.

If they're calling, but not working the station, then, they're  
obviously not a good indicator of what the CQ station is hearing (say  
in the case of DX).

I'm still in the stage that I want to see:

1) Overall band activity
2) DX that I hear, and when I hear it.

I'm not always in the shack (in fact, I am able to spend far less time  
than I like) but; skimmer can be a propagation experience builder, I  
think.  If you're able to log many hours of RX and condense it down to  
heard calls with a relative report; you can get a good idea for when  
the band<s> are hot.

One thing that would be nice (and I asked Felipe for it, but, I  
imagine he's busy around holidays and it's by no means an important  
thing) was the ability to suppress your own call from being spotted  
when CQ'ing.  My TX and RX antennas are crammed together, which means  
my skimmers frequently report me calling CQ on that band (or, usually,  
another) this is no good :).

73, and have pleasant and safe holidays,

Joe KC0VKN

On Dec 23, 2008, at 2:34 AM, skimmertalk-request at contesting.com wrote:

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