SSB self spotting via RBNHole ?

On the Bands Operating Procedures
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Folks, just looking for opinions. While activating Tonelagee EI/IE-003 today I had a situation where cell coverage was really poor and while my SSB self spot has managed to get through at the end, I had some difficult time to get any attention till then, particularly while the contest was on.

Now wondering, am I right that CW RBNHole picks up and spots in case an alert was pre-set? Then, for SSB operation, does it make sense to pre-set an alert while the coverage is good, say before heading to site. Then, in case of no cell coverage, run a CW CQ SOTA on your SSB freq (say 14.333). RBNHole picks that and spots, it’ll be displayed as CW CQ on SSB portion of the band, so should sound a bell for SSB operators?

Kind of emergency self spot in case anything else fails?

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Is there going to be a CW skimmer listening for CW 250kHZ above the nominal limit of the CW band ?

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Don’t know, but may check that tomorrow, although 250kHz should be okay for say 20m band?

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Probably not. This shows the coverage of each node:

But it wouldn’t be hard to test.

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Ah, right. Scrapping the idea then!

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SOTAmat is designed for this use case. RBN is most certainly not. Can it be pushed to do so? Maybe, but most likely it will fall over.

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