Contest RST reports

[eric manning-2]

If you want an accurate signal report, the place to go is RBN
http://www.reversebeacon.net/main.php

Just Send CQ and wait for the spots to roll in.

Everything else is preamble [contest 599 - for everyone] or overly polite, or a wild guess,
or all of the above.

Eric
VA7DZ



Why be upset with a 599? Because of that very same variability; it is highly
unlikely that you will have exactly the same propagation to different parts
of the world at the same time, so why should you accept the same report from
all contacts without question?

Matthew Pitts
N8OHU


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[Hank Garretson]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:17 PM, ERIC MANNING <[hidden email]> wrote:

If you want an accurate signal report, the place to go is RBN
> http://www.reversebeacon.net/main.php
>

Skimmer and RBN are many wonderful things, but I'm not sure they are
signal-level "accurate." The signal level Skimmer gives you is SNR.

1. Noise levels will vary among different Skimmers.

2. Noise level will vary over time (both short- and long-term) for an
individual skimmer.

Ski Exuberantly,

Hank, W6SX

Mammoth Lakes, California

Elevation 8083 feet in John Muir's Range of Light
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[Pete Smith N4ZR]

All true, Hank.  You can't get an absolute signal report, particularly
given the wide variation in antenna systems, preamps, and so on.  OTOH,
if you want to compare your signal to a given Skimmer over time, or with
another station, the Signal Comparison Tool on the RBN web site will
give you data that are averaged among multiple spots by a given
Skimmer.  Multiple data points go a long way toward averaging out the
effects of QRM or QRN on the SNR of a particular Skimmer.

73, Pete N4ZR
The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststations.com
The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com,
spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 and
arcluster.reversebeacon.net, port 7000


On 2/20/2012 7:47 PM, Hank Garretson wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:17 PM, ERIC MANNING<[hidden email]>  wrote:
>
> If you want an accurate signal report, the place to go is RBN
>> http://www.reversebeacon.net/main.php
>>
> Skimmer and RBN are many wonderful things, but I'm not sure they are
> signal-level "accurate." The signal level Skimmer gives you is SNR.
>
> 1. Noise levels will vary among different Skimmers.
>
> 2. Noise level will vary over time (both short- and long-term) for an
> individual skimmer.
>
> Ski Exuberantly,
>
> Hank, W6SX
>
> Mammoth Lakes, California
>
> Elevation 8083 feet in John Muir's Range of Light
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