Hi Bill, You are right about the antennas on some RBN stations missing signals. I wouldn't mind running a 160m skimmer on the RBN myself here, perhaps somehow using all four directions my Beverage antennas simultaneously. Maybe it would be too much trouble. In any case, I would need help with at least the software for doing that. I posted an inquiry at http://www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php/topic,91114.0.html about just making that arrangement available through WebSDR; but if we could figure out how to do it, it might be nice to have all four directions available on the RBN (at least on 160). But I see problems doing that, such as duplicate posts to the RBN from the same signal picked up by different directions.
Sorry I misunderstood you. :-) 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Bill Cromwell <wrcromw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks. Yes..I thought everybody who knows what RBN is also knows that the > stations *automatically* post the information on the RBN server. I thought > I made an efficient use of words. I did make the call and was not heard. I > did see some activity on the RBN and I was able to hear the North American > stations that were posted there AND I heard one or two that were NOT posted > there. Do they call the receive stations "skimmers"? I'm sure the skimmers > are 'plagued' with the same noise problems all of us face. And there is the > matter of 'lobes' in the antenna patterns - intentional or not. There are a > lot of reasons why skimmers might miss some signals. One of them is low > power and another could involve the antenna. It may not radiate well and it > may not radiate well in the direction of skimmers that could otherwise > hear. Not all of the skimmers are on 160 meters. > _________________ Topband Reflector
