Of reception records that is being used for ionospheric research purposes. This can be useful in determining propagationĬonditions or in adjusting antenna and/or radio parameters. Minutes) see where his signal was received. The way that this would be used is that an amateur would call CQ and could then (within a few You do still need toĬall CQ in order for your signal to be reported. The rules for protocols like FT8 are different as the callsigns are protected by error correction. The duplicate check is to make sure that the callsign is notĬorrupted. This is of interest to the amateur who transmittedĪdn they will be able to see where their signal was received. Run a client that will monitor received traffic for callsigns (the pattern 'de callsign callsign') and, when seen, will report this fact. The way that it works is that many amateurs will
Make those records available in near realtime to interested parties - typically theĪmateur who initiated the communication.
This started out as a project to automatically gather reception records of digimode activity and then
