{"id":2867,"date":"2017-07-15T13:45:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T17:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2018-07-15T13:46:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T17:46:03","slug":"rbn-spot-counts-cq-wpx-cw-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"RBN Spot Counts, CQ WPX CW 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To get an idea of the efficacy of the Red Pitaya skimmer set-up, I pulled spot counts from the RBN via screen grabs off of the &#8216;Spots Analysis Tool&#8217;. \u00c2\u00a0During the 2016 contest the skimmer station at W4KAZ was run with softrocks as the skimmer SDR, skimming only 160m\/80m\/40m\/20m. \u00c2\u00a015m was better during 2016 than 2017, but the softrock for 15m was not reliable enough to run during a contest.<\/p>\n<p>With that caveat, the W4KAZ spot \u00c2\u00a0counts from 2017 are quite a bit better than those from 2016. \u00c2\u00a0This reflects skimming 6 bands in 2017 as well as improvements \u00c2\u00a0due to Red Pitaya vs Softrocks(2016 skimming was for only 160\/80\/40\/20)<\/p>\n<p>Spot counts from RBN for the CQ WPX CW of 2016\/2017. \u00c2\u00a0They are grouped by continent and sorted from high to low spot counts.<\/p>\n<p>There are 4,489,640\u00c2\u00a0total RBN spots for the period of the 2016 contest.<\/p>\n<p>There are\u00c2\u00a04,431,759 total RBN spots for the period of the 2017 contest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/images\/pages\/skimmer_spot_counts_wpx_saturday.htm\">http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/images\/pages\/skimmer_spot_counts_wpx_saturday.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/images\/pages\/skimmer_spot_counts_wpx_sunday.htm\">http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/images\/pages\/skimmer_spot_counts_wpx_sunday.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite a similarity in the total number of spots, the spot distribution shows the counts for Europe significantly higher in 2017 vs 2016. \u00c2\u00a0In North America, the spot counts on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To get an idea of the efficacy of the Red Pitaya skimmer set-up, I pulled spot counts from the RBN via screen grabs off of the &#8216;Spots Analysis Tool&#8217;. \u00c2 During the 2016 contest the skimmer station at W4KAZ was run with softrocks as the skimmer SDR, skimming only 160m\/80m\/40m\/20m. \u00c2 15m was better during 2016 than 2017, but the softrock for 15m was not reliable enough to run during a contest.<\/p>\n<p>With that caveat, the W4KAZ spot \u00c2 counts from 2017 are quite a bit better than those from 2016. \u00c2 This reflects skimming 6 bands in 2017 as well as improvements \u00c2 due to Red Pitaya vs Softrocks(2016 skimming was for only 160\/80\/40\/20)<\/p>\n<p>Spot counts from RBN for the CQ WPX CW of 2016\/2017. \u00c2 They are grouped by continent and sorted from high to low spot counts.<\/p>\n<p>There are 4,489,640\u00c2 total RBN spots for the period of the 2016 contest.<\/p>\n<p>There are\u00c2 4,431,759 total RBN spots for the period of the 2017 contest.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/images\/pages\/skimmer_spot_counts_wpx_saturday.htm<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/images\/pages\/skimmer_spot_counts_wpx_sunday.htm<\/p>\n<p>Despite a similarity in the total number of spots, the spot distribution shows the counts for Europe significantly higher in 2017 vs 2016. \u00c2 In North America, the spot counts on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}