Can only dream of working dx like this on cw ...
2009-11-21 13:54 9M3KKR 0.503906 -23 1 OL69 1000 G3ZJO
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mind you after watching the movie ...perhaps machine's can dream as
well ?
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From: "James Cowburn" <
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Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:12 PM
To: <
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Subject: RE: LF: WSPR : QSO or
not QSO
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> How do you know they are unattended?
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> Jim
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:
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[email protected]] On Behalf Of mal hamilton
> Sent: 21 November 2009 14:05
> To:
[email protected]> Subject: Re: LF: WSPR : QSO or not QSO
>
> Two unattended machines had a QSO!! Is that what you mean.
> g3kev
>
> ----- Original
Message -----
> From: "Andy Talbot" <
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> To: <
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> Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:52 PM
> Subject: Re: LF: WSPR : QSO or not QSO
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> CanI suggest you read thoroughly the documentation on how the mode
> works before making claims about the database.and validity. The
> database can only be updated by stations decoding and reportoing, and
> if each QSO partner has a reciprocal report in the database for
> near-adjacent time intervals , then they MUST have been in contact
> with eachother and cannot be classed as anything bu a valid QSO.
Its
> impossible to have achieved this in any other way.
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> Please read all the documentation first.
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> Andy
> www.g4jnt.com
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> 2009/11/21 Wolf Ostwald <
[email protected]>:
>> Hello group !
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>> I am not an expert with WSPR at all. But I followed the discussion
> regarding
>> false detection of calls thru the database.
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>> To my understanding the WSPR operator has NO way to really find out
> whether
>> the computer came to the right conclusion about the calls received, or
>> whether it just judged by means of plausibility. We humans have no sense
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>> phaseshift, that means we have to believe the machine.
>>
>> I think that the database in the background is like a walking stick for
> the
>> blind.
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>> Of course it's a new and exciting technology, but I doubt that it is on
> one
>> and the same level with a regular exchange and therefore should not be
>> considered equally verifying a valid contact.
>>
>> My two pence worth de wolf df2py
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