[Dxspider-support] Number of spots in CQWW CW?

[Dirk Koopman]

Erm...

That sounds like a "bad thing[tm]", doesn't it?  Surely a direct feed 
from the RBN has been a feature of contest programs for quite a while. 
All DXSpider does is curate somewhat to reduce (and distribute)  the 
bandwidth requirements, whilst trying to retain (and condense) the 
richness of information available. So I am struggling to understand why 
overall spot numbers have changed because of my stuff.

I have another suggestion. The last two years have had many (most?) 
people at home for (far) more time than usual - for some reason or 
other. Even though this is a weekend contest, I wonder whether all this 
enforced time at home meant that more non-work related related jobs that 
would, under normal work condx, be done at the weekend, got done during 
the week instead. Thus leaving more time (and concentration levels) 
available for contesting. This year, things have got back to more normal 
patterns, but now everything has got much more expensive very quickly. 
Maybe people are actually having to work more to pay their bills and 
have much less time for hobbies.

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick (again)?

73 Dirk G1TLH

On 28/11/2022 12:25, Mike G3YPP via Dxspider-support wrote:
>
> Well, I have a theory.
>
> I was an active participant in CQWW CW operating G4P making 1100 QSOs, 
> 2/3 of which were S&P (Search and Pounce)
>
> I used N1MM Logger+ connected to my cluster MX0NCA-2.    My cluster is 
> connected to the RBN so RBN spots are shown in the N1MM bandmap along 
> with “normal” spots.
>
> I have “Spot all S&P QSOs” selected in N1MM.
>
> BUT even with this selected N1MM does not spot recently spotted 
> callsigns (on same frequency).   This is a good intended feature.
>
> So because of the RBN feed, N1MM only actually sent 45 of my QSOs to 
> the cluster.    All the rest had already been spotted by the RBN.
>
> Given more clusters now connecting to the RBN – thanks to Dirk’s great 
> work on the mojo branch – far fewer CW signals are actually spotted on 
> the “normal” feed.
>
> That’s my take on it.
>
> Mike G3YPP
>
> Sysop for MX0NCA-2
>
>
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