Hi Sholto, I am just back from holiday and saw your post.  Your
question has been one that has been on my mind recently, I am not sure
what can be done to add interest.  The SKCC and LOTW sked pages are
often very busy but the interest in the sked page for digital mode
skeds seems to be dwindling.  I saw no increase when the hamspots page
was down for a month.  I thought the nice new design and link to
PSKreporter at hamspots would bring lots of users to hamspots and make
my sked page even less used, however Hamspots can go many hours
without a spot too (except PSkreporter ).  I think it may be time for
something new to spice things up but I am not sure what that is for
the digital mode enthusiasts.  Joe and I have added as many
interesting features to the sked page as we can think off.  I still
think some form of integration of PSKreporter might be useful although
I am not sure how to add that...yet.  Something like the
auto-reporting module you wrote for Multispk and your old spotting
page might be useful too.  Ideally, some easy form of  "my rig is
tuned to" would be of help but perhaps one that is not dependent on a
particular piece of software, something that reports your frequency
and mode "live" to a webpage regardless of whether you are using
Multipsk, DM780, Winwarbler, FLdigi, or other applications.
Reporting what you hear would also be interesting if it could be
filtered to prevent endless reports of the same station in a mundane
mode.  Spotcollector still appears, to me, to be the most useful spot
related system.  I'm not sure what would be best, creating something
that could take data filtered FROM Spotcollector and automatically
posted to a "sked page" for digital modes, or creating a system where
data is SENT  to a digital mode only cluster that would interface with
Spotcollector and end users could customize as they wish.  Perhaps we
can get a few comments .

Andy K3UK

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Sholto Fisher<sho...@probikekit.com> wrote:
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> Just wondered why there are so few spots on Andy's sked page recently?
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> http://www.obriensweb.com/sked/
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> also I am QRV on 14074 with RS-ID and CALL ID monitoring.
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> 73 Sholto
> K7TMG
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