There are many I've encountered who argue that Skimmer (including Reverse Beacon Networks) is the best tool for the pileup. But it's also been pointed out that newer technology has made it possible for the DX to work a station 10.35 kHz up from where he's listening and within 12 nanoseconds (quickly!) 40 other stations are zero beat with that frequency - and then with all of them jammed on top of that same frequency, reading a single call is virtually impossible, forcing the DX op to tune elsewhere.
This is not my opinion, this is a comment from G3TXF, an acknowledged expert. While one could *still* argue the merits of the Skimmer technology (and I've been struggling to make mine work properly!), I've found great success with my P3. I can't always immediately tell where the DX is currently listening, but, with the SUB RX on, listening to the DX in left ear, pileup in the right ear, tuning fairly quickly with the VFO B knob, watching the P3, etc., I've followed the station through the pileup on numerous occasions. My personal "best reward" has been by using the P3 to identify "...where they ain't..." and more or less camp out there until the DX stumbles across me. There are times when the pileup discipline is awesome - only the guy being called responds - one could only wish this would happen more often! Then the signal spike on the P3 leads one to the proverbial well. Unfortunately, many, many times, the DX calls for "PJ?" and a bunch of guys with nothing resembling a "P" or a "J" just keep right on calling. Then the pileup, like life, becomes a little more difficult! The Elecraft Electro-Wonder K9 will solve some of those problems. There's a feature being developed on that rig that will identify the continuous non-listening callers and send them a 36v jolt that will hopefully shock them to their senses. 1984 has long come and gone and Big Brother is no longer watching the pileup! Art - N4PJ On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Tony Estep <estept...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:22 PM, W5RDW <rwhitete...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > ....With 7O6T on the air for a few days, its usefulness really shines... > > ================ > Definitely true. Without a panadaptor it would be really, really hard to > track down his listening frequency. (Even with one it's hard in all that > chaos.) The pileups have been even wider than they were for ST0R. I worked > him on CW 11 up on one band and 12 up on another, and the pile extended for > many kc above that. I guess one thing that modern technology has made > possible is bigger pileups. > > Tony KT0NY > > > > -- > http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > 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:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
