tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8554856838676547482.post933163939169462940..comments2024-03-13T23:27:27.652-07:00Comments on Reverse Beacon: Making Best Use of The RBN in the ARRL DX ContestPete Smith - N4ZRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02411300024370511509noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8554856838676547482.post-80613166336447513462012-02-22T14:23:54.062-08:002012-02-22T14:23:54.062-08:00Thanks, John. Yes, the DXSpider node went down, b...Thanks, John. Yes, the DXSpider node went down, but Dave, KM3T did a repair and got it back up fairly quickly. As far as I know the ARC6 node kept running throughout.Pete Smith - N4ZRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02411300024370511509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8554856838676547482.post-38270108989504600302012-02-20T05:13:02.514-08:002012-02-20T05:13:02.514-08:00Hi, Pete - I had mostly very positive experiences ...Hi, Pete - I had mostly very positive experiences using the RBN in ARRL CW. I use VE7CC's software to only pass skimmer spots from W3, VA and WV and that works great.<br /><br />There did seem to be an outage on Saturday afternoon or late morning. The RBN just died, could not reconnect. Switched the LPL cluster for a while, checked the RBN a few times, still down. Outage seemed to last a few hours.<br /><br />On Sunday, the busted spot problem seemed reduced compared to previous contests but still there. Missing started dits (like B1A instead IB1A, and a few others) and some trailing dits (like the short HG#X type calls) seemed most common. <br /><br />EA9EU seemed to be a mystery RBN spot all weekend. I jumped on it from the RBN several times, never once actually heard hime there. Could be some skimmer spamming, not sure what was going.<br /><br />Those issues represent less than 1% of my use of the RBN for an assisted entry. AS a small station, I can use SO2V with my K3 and generally use the RBN to maintain S&P rates about equal to and often higher than what I can get running - and never have to send QRL!! <br /><br />73, John K3TNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com