On Thursday, April 16th I was additionally activating DM/BW-102 on short notice. This seemed to cause confusion with RBNhole because there were spots with DM/BW-661 when I was already sitting on DM/BW-102. I tried to announce the correct reference more often but I can see from my log that some chasers mixed up the summits.
Please check the following times in your log:
My last QSO on DM/BW-661 was at 12:29 utc
My first QSO on DM/BW-102 was at 14:16 utc
Sorry for the confusion!
Thanks for the QSOs,
Roman - DL3TU
RBNhole wasn’t confused at all, it did exactly what it was told.
If your plans are subject to change then alert using a wildcard. RBNhole will spot the wildcard and people will have to listen to what you send to get the reference. Put info in the alert comment as to which summits you intend to activate.
…or edit your alert for the first summit when you change plans. Add “NORBN” in the comments field and everything is fine. This of course relies on cell phone coverage.
I saw your spots with mixed-up references, but from the context it was clear that RBNhole is wrong.
Well, it wasn’t really a change of plans. I activated the three summits (DM/BW-848, -659, and -661) in the order I had set the alerts the day before.
I had in mind to activate DM/BW-102 as well, but only decided to do so when it became clear that there was enough time.
Heinz, do I understand this right: I could have added “NORBN” to my alert for my previous summit (e.g. after I went QRT on DM/BW-661) and no further spots would have appeared for this reference?
If you have alerted multiple activations than you have to add “NORBN” to each of them. RBNhole then ignores these alerts. It might even work in lower case letters, but not sure.
… thanks all for the hints! And thanks Heinz for looking up the correct string!
QSL, Jarek, both references are correct. I remember you asked me for the ref when we had the second QSO.
I can only encourage everybody to do so when in doubt
Hello Roman.
You can prepare your spot before, it is not a problem.
Just including the following alert. I do like this when I’m not sure about my timetable:
10:00 utc — DM/BW-XXX
12:00 utc — DM/BW-XXX
You can be sure, one the chasers will spot you with the complete REF.
And so on
Hi Roman,
I had the same issues when activating multiple summits (either planned or spontaneously driving to another one). After I encountered this, I started to add a spot or edit the existing one o ce I arrived at the parking lot of the second summit. (There, I usually have a good estimate when I’ll be on the air). Since I do this, I never had problems with wrong RBN spots again. I did the wildcard spotting already, but I prefer the convenience of RBNHOLE during my CW activations.
