[Skimmertalk] Z60A not being copied by CT1BOH-#

Dave Pascoe davekm3t at gmail.com
Fri Feb 2 16:36:34 EST 2018


>From Alex:

"The CW and RTTY servers spot only the callsigns with the prefixes from the
ITU-assigned blocks. I removed this limitation in CW Skimmer 2.0 but not
yet in the CW and RTTY servers. I will patch the servers soon."

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 4:20 PM, ct1boh <ct1boh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Got this from a source...
> “skimserver spots only prefix blocks assigned by ITU”...
>
> Enviado do meu iPhone
>
> No dia 02/02/2018, às 20:06, N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net> escreveu:
>
> > For the RBN team. I can say that this is not a known problem to us, with
> either Skimmer or Skimmer Server software. However, we are not
> knowledgeable in detail about the working of Alex's software, so he would
> be the best one to respond definitively to this.
> >
> > 73, Pete N4ZR
> > Check out the Reverse Beacon Network
> > at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now
> > spotting RTTY activity worldwide.
> > For spots, please use your favorite
> > "retail" DX cluster.
> >
> >> On 2/2/2018 1:45 PM, dd5xx at web.de wrote:
> >> Hello José,
> >>
> >> I am not sure what exactly happens but I also experienced following
> phenomenon ==> callsigns containing a zero 0 are not recognized as well. We
> did excessive tests over months, various time periods, various stations,
> various power levels and all kind of sort you can imagine of. The results
> showed very clear that our club station callsign XX0X is not recognized as
> good as when I send another callsign in CW. That happens to "CQ CQ CQ de
> XX0X XX0X XX0X" but also to "TEST TEST TEST DE XX0X XX0X XX0X" calls. This
> issue still exists and I can reproduce it.
> >>
> >> I have no clue it is just the "zero" causing the problem or a certain
> combination with it. In our case, our callsign has the character "A" after
> the zero, so it ends in 0A. Maybe others can provide more information if
> this is a known issue.
> >>
> >> 73 de DD5XX
> >> Saki
> >>
> >> Gesendet: Freitag, 02. Februar 2018 um 18:43 Uhr
> >> Von: "José Nunes CT1BOH" <ct1boh at gmail.com>
> >> An: skimmertalk at contesting.com
> >> Betreff: [Skimmertalk] Z60A not being copied by CT1BOH-#
> >> I have a skimmer going at my QTH
> >> http://www.reversebeacon.net/dxsd1/dxsd1.php?f=0&t=de&c=CT1BOH
> >>
> >> I have + Z6#@ in pattern file in aggregator.
> >> Z60A is loud and clear, but my skimmer never "skims" Z60A
> >>
> >> It seems this is not only my problem. Skimmer spots for Z60A are very
> few.
> >>
> >> First it seemed that only skimmer stations copy Z60A and the problem is
> >> with skimmer-server stations, but no sure about that.
> >>
> >> Any hint about what problem may be?
> >>
> >> 73
> >>
> >> --
> >> José Nunes
> >> CONTEST CT1BOH - http://www.qsl.net/ct1boh[http://www.qsl.net/ct1boh]
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