Over the past week, I have been monitoring my SDR for drift net beacons, from around 1750 to 2500 kHz, mostly in the very early hours of the morning (before dawn, approximately 6:00 a.m., Pacific Standard Time) and in the evening (after dark, from around 7:00 p.m., Pacific Standard Time). So, it appears that my RTTY signal is not broadcasting far enough to ring any bells on the skimmers there. One of their spokespersons contacted me and essentially validated what I suspected above, i.e., that there are more CW skimmers in the United States and more RTTY skimmers in Europe.

UPDATE: OK, I discovered that the Reverse Beacon Network had a contact page, so I sent them an email asking the same questions as I lay out above. I'm asking this because I'm thinking that maybe there are more CW skimmers located in the United States, while there are more RTTY skimmers in Europe (I know from experience that more Europeans use RTTY than do those here in the States).Ĭan anyone help me out here? It is kind of driving me nuts! Thanks.

Do all of them register/copy the same modes, i.e., Morse, RTTY, PSK31, etc? Or does a particular skimmer only copy certain modes? Like CW only. I'm not really savvy as to how the network of RBN skimmers are set up. (My own location is in Florida).ĭoes anyone have any idea why my RTTY signal is not registering on RBN, while my CW/Morse signal does? (One call sign I checked last night that registered was located in New York and the skimmer that picked up the New York call sign was located in Europe. Yet my call sign never does, even though I am transmitting on almost the exact same frequency and at the same time as RTTY call signs that do. Yet, while monitoring my own signal, I often see other call signs I'm decoding on my FLDIGI screen register on the RBN. But, I have never seen my call sign register on RBN, even after hours of sending out signals. Recently I have been transmitting many RTTY sessions using FLDIGI. It works great for Morse and my call sign shows up on RBN every time that I transmit. I have been using the Reverse Beacon Network (RBN) for many years, mostly while transmitting Morse code. I'm hoping someone here might be able to help me out. I posted this over on the Amateur Radio subReddit, but didn't get any response.

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