[GreenKeys] RTTY North American QSO Party - Some RBN statistics

[Roy Morgan]

An RBN is a radio beacon. Historical air navigation system of low frequency beacons used by aircraft (and some ships in coastal waters) for navigation. Roughly in the 200 to 400 kc band (that is not accurate, from memory). There is a declining number of beacons still in operation. Also known as NDB non directional beacons. One subset of "short" wave listening SWL is logging NDB's and has it's own community, clubs, and on-line databases. 

There also is a system of beacons in the ham bands operated at licensed ham stations. Used to check propagation. Often transmit a series of signals of decreasing power. 

A skimmer is a computer operated receiver that scans (usually) the CW portions of our ham bands and digitally processes the signals discovered. The results are posted on websites for your discover. I think one such web site is
RBN.net or some such.  

I do not know of any skimmers that report teletype signals. If someone knows of any, please post information. 

Roy

Roy Morgan
K1LKY Western Mass

> On Mar 3, 2020, at 10:16 AM, Duncan Brown <duncanancy at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Bill,
> 
> I don't know what an "RBN"  is either.
> 
> I know what a "skimmer" is, but where do we find the RTTY skimmers?
> 
> Thanks & have fun,
> 
> Duncan
> K2OEQ
> 
>> On 03-Mar-20 09:43, W2HX wrote:
>> What is an RBN? What is a skimmer? Sorry if I'm the only one who doesn't know these terms. thanks
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net <greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of William Wuttke
>> Sent: Monday, March 2, 2020 5:05 PM
>> To: Greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: [GreenKeys] RTTY North American QSO Party - Some RBN statistics
>> 
>> In case anyone might be interested:
>> 
>> Just for fun I downloaded the RBN logs for Feb 29 and Mar 1, created a database and did some queries. Here are some statistics for that period (if my queries were correct):
>> 
>> 1. There were 129,730 RTTY entries (includes duplicates).
>> 2. There were 32 RTTY skimmers worldwide online, with 19 in North America.
>> 3. There were 1383 individual RTTY callsigns heard worldwide, with 1307 heard in North America.
>> 4. My skimmer heard 105 individual RTTY callsigns.
>> 
>> 73,
>> Bill
>> KE3BK
>> 
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