[Dx4win] Is there a blacklist feature for Cluster spots?

Kurt Zimmerman kurt at kwzimmerman.com
Tue Jul 23 17:55:52 EDT 2013


What is a skimmer? I've seen W3LPL spots and if I'm on the band and hear the DX station I work him. 

Am I missing something?
73
Kurt - W2MW

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On Jul 23, 2013, at 5:41 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr at contesting.com> wrote:

> Not quite right, Jim - they are from NA Skimmers only, and for several months now, the location where the station was heard has been appearing in the Comment field
> 
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at
> http://reversebeacon.net,
> blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com.
> For spots, please go to your favorite
> ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node.
> 
> On 7/23/2013 4:51 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Andreas Junge N6NU wrote:
>> 
>>> Use the VE7CC “CC user” cluster filtering tool. There is a switch to turn on/off Skimmer spots.
>> Actually, they do not come in as skimmer spots.  CW Skimmer spots are
>> identified by -# at the end of the spotter callsign.  I have CW
>> Skimmer disabled, but still get the W3LPL spots.
>> 
>>> W3LPL has such a great antenna farm, I can't hear his spots even when they
>>> are from MD.
>> Spots arriving from W3LPL originate from CW skimmers all over the
>> world, not just in MD.
>> 
>> --
>> Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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