[WT-support] computer/skimmer problems

Rick Dougherty NQ4I nq4i at contesting.com
Thu Feb 23 13:39:26 CET 2012


Hi Bob...we used K9USA for spots and reverse beacon for skimmer spots...de Rick

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Bob Wilson, N6TV <n6tv at arrl.net> wrote:
> Rick,
>
> I absolutely agree with W4TV that 384 MB is way too little memory to run
> Windows XP or later these days.
>
> It is not clear to me if you are running CW Skimmer locally with your own
> SDR, or connecting to the reverse beacon network to get other Skimmer spots,
> or both.  wtDxTelnet doesn't use much CPU.  CW Skimmer or SkimSrv uses a ton
> of CPU.
>
> As for filtering, if you're using the Reverse Beacon Network (RBN) and only
> want to see DX spots originating from CQ zones 4 and 5, say, you could
> connect to telnet.reversebeacon.net port 7000 then issue the following
> command on that server:
>
> acc/spot by_zone 4,5 or by wz7i
> rej/spot call_dxcc w,ve
>
> (WZ7I's Skimmer is in Zone 5, but the server thinks it is in zone 3)
>
> or if you're in CQ Zone 3, try:
>
> acc/spot by_zone 1,3,4 not by wz7i
> rej/spot call_dxcc w,ve
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
>
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