Just an FYI, the W3LPL spots are not his skimmer. He has special code that re-spots skimmers that are sent to the Reverse Beacon Network. He has a skimmer system but the ones you see on the clusters is not that network. The skimmer operators only dump their decodes to the RBN. Well the ones that know what is going on do. During contests, the big gun stations have a local network of skimmers that they connect to to help with locating DX. These are also not seen by the general public.
Some of us cluster operators also have a local skimmer or are connected to a skimmer but these spots are only seen on our nodes. Mine only has my local skimmers. These can also be filtered out. I am running the beta code of V6 ARCluster which allows connecting to a skimmer and only allowing the spots locally. Tim Herrick, KQ8M North Coast Contesters [email protected] K3 Serial #5934 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary K9GS Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 11:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 spurious radiation? I've seen this happen before and it has also happened to me. Once I was on the low end of 40M and the W3LPL skimmer spotted me just below 7100. go figure..... If you watch skimmer spots you'll often notice weird things showing up. One of the JA skimmers regularly spots T2DE on 40M. There is not, to the best of my knowledge, a station from Tuvalu licensed at T2DE. I've seen other skimmers spot the same callsign when there was no way there was a propagation path. On 1/24/2012 7:08 AM, John/K8AZT wrote: > I have not been monitoring this mail list much recently so I apologize if this > subject has been discussed previously. > > I like to monitor the reversebeacon.net website while calling cq or just > monitoring looking for a qso. Recently I have discovered a situation which has > me puzzled and I am hoping someone here might be able to give me some insight > what might be happening. > > When calling cq (CW) on 7.0 MHz cw, I see several hits on the reverse beacon > website on 7.0 MHz, however I have also seen a couple stations allegedly hearing > me on 10.1 MHz (2 occurrences) and a station hearing me on 28 MHz bands (1 > occurrence). I am hoping this is a problem with the skimmers, but want to check > out if there is anything which might not be right with my K3 and/or antenna > which might be generating unwanted radiations. At the moment I do not have > exact frequencies where I was being monitored. I just thought someone might > have a suggestion where do I proceed. > > At the moment I do not have access to a frequency analyzer, but hope I can find > one to borrow locally. > > Thank you for any suggestions/comments anyone in the reflector might have. > > 73, > John/K8AZT > K3/ SN 1693 > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- 73, Gary K9GS Check out K9NS on the web: http://www.k9ns.com Greater Milwaukee DX Association: http://www.gmdxa.org Society of Midwest Contesters: http://www.w9smc.com ************************************************ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
