RBN Analytics

Skimmer frequency accuracy

To be a good RBN citizen a skimmer should have a frequency accuracy of 2ppm or better.

VERY IMPORTANT: To use the data below to improve the accuracy of your skimmer, multiply the current value of FreqCalibration in your skimmer software’s settings file with the suggested adjustment factor listed below.

The location of the settings files are:
CW Skimmer Server: %appdata%\Afreet\Products\SkimSrv\SkimSrv.ini
CW Skimmer: %appdata%\Afreet\Products\CwSkimmer\CwSkimmer.ini

The data listed below is based on yesterday’s RBN data, 00:00 to 23:59 UTC. This means that when making adjustments, changes in calibration will typically not have full impact on the listed data until the second day after the change.

The deviation estimates are based on spots on all active bands (40m and higher) from the respective skimmer. If different hardware is used for the different bands, the deviation number may thus not represent the actual deviation for a particular band. It is a good practice to run a separate instance of RBN Aggregator with a unique SSID for each hardware, (SM7IUN-1, SM7IUN-2, etc.)

A link to the software used to produce the tables can be found at the bottom of this page. It runs as a cron job in an Ubuntu container on my Synology server and uploads to this WordPress website shortly after midnight UTC daily.

The deviation estimation is done in two steps. The first step uses a small number of highly accurate skimmers (called “anchors” in the code, typically GPSDO-controlled skimmers) as reference. The whole estimation process is then repeated one more time but using both the anchors as well as all skimmers determined to be the “good” as reference. The “good” skimmers are those with less than 0.15ppm average deviation from the anchors, producing more than 100 qualifying spots (the qualification criteria of spots are outlined below.)

Repeating the analysis with this this extended set of skimmers as frequency references drastically increases the geographical coverage of the analysis thereby increasing the number of qualifying spots which means a much more reliable deviation estimates for all skimmers. The skimmers used as reference skimmers in the second stage (i.e. both anchors and “good”) are marked with an asterisk in the table below.

When looking at the numbers, keep in mind that the deviations estimated by the algorithm are 100 to 1000 times smaller than the 100Hz resolution of RBN frequency data. The input data is thus extremely “noisy” which inevitably leads to statistical variations. This is also the reason for not including spots under a certain frequency. Doing so would skew the statistics and cause underestimation of the frequency error.

Due to propagation characteristics, operator behavior (e.g. small QSY), and just statistical variations due to the 100Hz rounding, some skimmers selected as reference skimmers in the first stage may have more than 0.2ppm deviation in the second stage. This is not an error.

If you do not see your skimmer in the list below in spite of it successfully feeding spots to RBN the most likely reason is that it is off in frequency. The analytics discards all spots from skimmers having more than 0.5kHz frequency error.

if you want to implement an automated calibration of your skimmer you can access the skew data in machine-readable CSV format here https://sm7iun.se/rbnskew.csv

An skimmer calibration automation based on Windows PowerShell can be found here. It scrapes the calibration adjustment from this page and can be configured to update two CW Skimmer Server instances, two RTTY Skimmer Servers, and one CWSL_DIGI instance.

241988 RBN spots between 2025-08-19 00:00 and 23:59 UTC.
77029 spots (31.8%) were from reference skimmers (*).
Average spot flow was 168 per minute from 185 active CW skimmers.

123533 spots from 179 skimmers qualified for analysis by meeting
the following criteria:
 * Mode of spot is CW.
 * Also spotted by a reference skimmer within 1000 spots.
 * Also spotted by a reference skimmer within 10s. 
 * SNR is 3dB or higher. 
 * Frequency is 7000kHz or higher. 
 * Frequency deviation from reference skimmer is 0.5kHz or less.
 * At least 5 spots from same skimmer in data set.

  Skimmer    [ppm]  Spots    Adjustment 
  -------------------------------------
  3D2AG       +0.4     86   1.000000415
  5Z4GO       +0.8      6   1.000000793
  9M2CNC      +0.3    108   1.000000286
  AA0O        +0.7    355   1.000000665
  AC0C-1*     -0.0   1036   0.999999954
  BA4OP       +0.6     29   1.000000574
  BA6KC       +0.1     66   1.000000144
  BD4UNT      +0.0     30   1.000000000
  BG0AJO      +0.5     39   1.000000488
  BG0AJO/0    +0.0     23   1.000000000
  BG2TFW      +0.0     15   1.000000000
  BH4RRG      +0.0      9   1.000000000
  BH4XDZ      -0.7     20   0.999999286
  BI4UYX      +1.0      5   1.000000952
  CT1EYQ*     -0.1    883   0.999999936
  CX6VM       +1.0    233   1.000000995
  DD5XX       +0.7   1439   1.000000744
  DE1LON      +1.4   1162   1.000001429
  DF2CK*      -0.0   2923   0.999999981
  DF7GB*      -0.1   1399   0.999999927
  DK0TE       +0.2   1277   1.000000191
  DK3WW*      -0.1   1865   0.999999945
  DK9IP       +0.2    733   1.000000206
  DK9IP-1     +0.1    950   1.000000106
  DL0LA*      +0.1    520   1.000000062
  DL0PF      +10.7   2184   1.000010650
  DL1HWS      +0.5   1486   1.000000507
  DL1HWS-3    +0.7    881   1.000000715
  DL1HWS-4    +1.0    212   1.000001000
  DL5RCN     +13.3    651   1.000013290
  DL8LAS      +1.5   1134   1.000001496
  DL8TG*      +0.0   1180   1.000000006
  DM5GG       +0.6   1745   1.000000593
  DM6EE*      -0.0   1532   0.999999963
  DO4DXA*     -0.0   1670   0.999999957
  DR4W        -0.8   1602   0.999999203
  E28AC       -1.4     27   0.999998590
  EA2CW*      +0.0   1049   1.000000029
  EA2RCF-4    +0.3    706   1.000000332
  EA5WU       -0.0    249   0.999999971
  EA7/VE3NZ*  -0.1    494   0.999999913
  ES2RR       -0.0   1489   0.999999995
  ES5PC*      +0.0   1852   1.000000030
  F4GOU       +7.7   1337   1.000007696
  F4VVG*      +0.1    535   1.000000062
  G0KTN       +0.4    941   1.000000374
  G3YPP       +0.6     75   1.000000599
  G4IRN       +0.3    312   1.000000315
  G4ZFE       +0.8   1439   1.000000780
  GI4DOH-3*   +0.0   1005   1.000000034
  GX0FRE      +0.0      8   1.000000000
  HA1VHF      +0.5   1197   1.000000521
  HA6PX*      +0.0   1548   1.000000013
  HA8TKS      +0.1    780   1.000000142
  HA8TKS-2    -0.1     90   0.999999890
  HB9BXE*     +0.2   1295   1.000000190
  HB9DCO*     -0.1   1169   0.999999855
  HG8A        +2.6   1377   1.000002648
  IK7YTT*     +0.1   1443   1.000000068
  IT9GSF*     +0.1   1055   1.000000061
  IW9GDC      -0.1    565   0.999999896
  JH7CSU1     +2.0     42   1.000001982
  JI1HFJ      -0.7     20   0.999999287
  JJ2VLY      +1.4     71   1.000001427
  JN1ILK      +0.3    209   1.000000341
  K1RA        +0.3    861   1.000000280
  K2PO/7      +0.7    407   1.000000738
  K3PA-1*     +0.0    907   1.000000033
  K3PA-2      +0.0     11   1.000000000
  K4PP*       +0.0    528   1.000000017
  K5EM        +2.9    206   1.000002886
  K5TR        -3.1    630   0.999996908
  K6FOD       -0.1    159   0.999999911
  K7CO        +0.9    367   1.000000947
  K7EK        +0.5    172   1.000000493
  K7RUT       -0.5     13   0.999999452
  K9IMM       +0.0    442   1.000000041
  K9LC        +0.5    774   1.000000513
  KD2OGR      +0.2    496   1.000000212
  KD7EFG      +0.5    296   1.000000536
  KH6LC       +0.3     85   1.000000335
  KM3T-2*     +0.1    652   1.000000106
  KM3T-3*     -0.1    477   0.999999858
  KM3T-5*     +0.0    633   1.000000014
  KO7SS       +1.1    194   1.000001063
  KP2RUM      +0.1    261   1.000000105
  KP3CW       -0.3    401   0.999999672
  KV4TT*      +0.1    872   1.000000107
  KW7MM       +0.1    627   1.000000084
  KW7MM/7     +0.0    559   1.000000009
  LA6TPA      -0.9    493   0.999999114
  LA7GIA      -0.1    306   0.999999950
  LB9KJ       -0.2    374   0.999999844
  LU8XW       +2.1     19   1.000002124
  LZ3CB*      -0.0    721   0.999999967
  LZ4AE       +0.1   1304   1.000000140
  LZ4UX*      +0.1   1000   1.000000064
  LZ5DI       +2.2   1640   1.000002229
  LZ7AA       +0.8    941   1.000000840
  MM0ZBH*     -0.0   1919   0.999999952
  N2CR        -0.0    275   0.999999966
  N2YCH*      +0.1   1144   1.000000100
  N6TV        +0.7    336   1.000000693
  N7TUG       -0.1     70   0.999999921
  N9CO        +0.4    444   1.000000396
  ND7K        -0.3    441   0.999999730
  NG7M        -0.1    376   0.999999929
  NT6Q        +5.5     93   1.000005529
  NU4F*       +0.2    541   1.000000246
  OE9GHV*     +0.2    475   1.000000214
  OH4KA       +0.9    225   1.000000875
  OH6BG       +0.2   1794   1.000000226
  OH8KA       +5.2     33   1.000005185
  OK1FCJ*     +0.1   1997   1.000000095
  OK1HRA      -4.4   1567   0.999995604
  OK2ZAW     +11.6    623   1.000011617
  ON6ZQ       +0.5   1193   1.000000512
  OZ1AAB      +0.2    548   1.000000218
  OZ1BZS      +0.4    276   1.000000422
  OZ4ADX      +0.2    140   1.000000204
  PA5KT-14    -0.8   1776   0.999999241
  PA8MM       +0.2    738   1.000000214
  PE5TT       +1.0    936   1.000000998
  PI4CC       +0.2   1671   1.000000209
  PY2KNK      +2.2    233   1.000002158
  PY2PE       -2.4     96   0.999997632
  R4NCU       -0.7     68   0.999999266
  RK3TD       +0.1    123   1.000000058
  RK3TD-2     +0.4    587   1.000000403
  RN4WA       +1.7    712   1.000001724
  RU9CZD      +0.1    477   1.000000051
  S50U        +0.2    952   1.000000181
  S53A        +0.7   2215   1.000000681
  S53F        +3.0    804   1.000003047
  S54L        +0.6   1662   1.000000636
  SE5E*       +0.1   1853   1.000000063
  SM0TCZ      -0.2     41   0.999999767
  SM1HEV*     -0.2    633   0.999999848
  SM7IUN*     +0.0   1124   1.000000029
  SP5GQ       +5.4    331   1.000005353
  SZ1A        -1.3   1286   0.999998682
  TF3Y        +1.2    724   1.000001216
  TI7W        +1.0    841   1.000000960
  UA0S        +4.3    284   1.000004320
  UA4CC      +13.8    591   1.000013820
  V51YJ       +1.3     56   1.000001287
  VE3EID      -0.8   1262   0.999999163
  VE6AO       -0.4    163   0.999999621
  VE6JY       +3.1    450   1.000003086
  VE7CC       +0.2    176   1.000000247
  VK2GEL      +0.0    132   1.000000000
  VK3RASA     -2.2    154   0.999997826
  VK6ANC      -0.2     63   0.999999837
  VU2CPL      -0.2     30   0.999999762
  VU2TUM      +1.3    131   1.000001252
  W1NT-2*     -0.1   1255   0.999999875
  W1NT-6*     -0.1   1655   0.999999889
  W2LB        +0.6    181   1.000000628
  W2MV        +0.4     69   1.000000412
  W2NAF       +0.9    969   1.000000938
  W3OA        +0.2    855   1.000000163
  W3RGA*      +0.1   1205   1.000000082
  W4KAZ       +0.0    638   1.000000045
  W6YX        +0.4    592   1.000000385
  W8WTS       +0.5    441   1.000000497
  W8WWV       -1.2    682   0.999998786
  WA7LNW      +0.1    758   1.000000092
  WB6BEE      -0.2    374   0.999999849
  WC2L*       -0.0    735   0.999999985
  WE9V        -0.1    859   0.999999936
  WS2C        +7.1    685   1.000007087
  WT9U        +5.7    407   1.000005718
  WV4P        -0.0    471   0.999999960
  WX7V/5      +1.0     95   1.000001048
  WZ7I        +0.6   1503   1.000000559
  YO2CK       -8.8   1298   0.999991160
  ZL2KS       -6.1     14   0.999993923
  ZL4YL       +3.1    159   1.000003082
  ZS1NN       -5.4     40   0.999994573

Last updated 2025-08-20 00:10:23 UTC

Historical skimmer frequency accuracy

Below you will find historical accuracy data for the past ten days. Do not be concerned over minor daily variations. Since RBN spots only have 100Hz frequency accuracy, the input data is very noisy. Even for a perfectly accurate skimmer, the typical RMS rounding error across all shortwave bands is around 3ppm. This means that for a skimmer with 1000 spots per day the statistical variation is up to 0.2ppm. For skimmers with less than 100 spots per day the statistical variation can be above 2ppm. The content of the table below is based on the historical content of the above table.

Skimmer    0819  0818  0817  0816  0815  0814  0813  0812  0811  0810
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3B8GL                                                            -0.1
3D2AG      +0.4  +0.3  +0.3  +0.4  +0.0  +0.2  -0.2  +0.4  +0.3  +0.1
5Z4GO      +0.8  +0.6  +0.2  +0.7  +1.1  +2.8  +1.1  +0.0  +0.0  +0.5
7N4XCV                                         +1.0  +1.0  +0.0  +0.3
9M2CNC     +0.3  +0.3  +0.6  +0.8  +0.6  +0.8  +1.2  +0.8            
AA0O       +0.7  +0.5  +0.7  +0.5  +0.4  +0.5  +0.9  +0.3  +0.7  +0.8
AC0C-1     -0.0  -0.0  -0.1  +0.0  -0.1  -0.0  -0.1  -0.0  -0.1  -0.1
BA4OP      +0.6  -0.0  -0.1  -0.1  -0.2  -0.1  +0.2  +0.0  +0.0  +0.0
BA6KC      +0.1  -0.3  -0.0  -0.0  -0.1  +0.2  -0.0  +0.0  +0.0  -0.1
BD4UNT     +0.0  -0.1  +0.0  -0.0  +0.1        +0.0  -0.3  +0.0  -0.1
BD7JNA                 +0.1  +0.1  +0.1  -0.1  +0.2  +0.2  -0.0  -0.3
BG0AJO/0   +0.0  +0.2  +0.0  +0.0  +0.3  +0.0  +0.5  +1.0        +0.0
BG0AJO     +0.5  +0.9  +0.4  +0.6  +0.4  +1.1  +0.3  +0.0  +0.7  +0.2
BG2TEM           -0.5  +0.4  +0.6  +0.4  +0.8  +0.8  +0.0  +0.6  +0.3
BG2TFW     +0.0        +0.8              +0.8  +1.1  +0.2  +0.0  +0.0
BG4GOV           +0.0  +0.9  +0.4                                +0.3
BH4HKZ                 +0.0  -0.2                                -0.7
BH4RRG     +0.0  +0.0  +0.5  +0.5  +0.5  -0.7  +0.6  +0.0  +0.0  +0.3
BH4XDZ     -0.7  +0.0  +0.1  -0.0  -0.2  +0.3  +0.3  +0.2  +0.0  -0.2
BI4MPH                                         -0.2  -0.0  -0.3  +0.1
BI4MPH-1               +0.2  -0.0  +0.6  +0.0  -0.8  +0.0        +0.1
BI4UYX     +1.0                                                      
CT1EYQ     -0.1  +0.2  +0.2  +0.3  +0.3  +0.5  +0.5  +0.4  +0.3  +0.2
CX6VM      +1.0  +0.9  +0.6                    +0.0  +0.4  -0.0  +0.4
DD5XX      +0.7  +0.5  +0.9  +1.5  +1.1  +1.2  +1.2  +1.0  +0.7  +1.3
DE1LON     +1.4  +1.5  +1.6  +2.0  +2.2  +2.1  +2.0  +1.9  +1.9  +2.0
DF2CK      -0.0  -0.1  +0.1  +0.2  -0.1  -0.2  -0.0  -0.1  -0.1  +0.1
DF4UE                                                            -9.6
DF7GB      -0.1  -0.0  -0.1  +0.0  -0.0  +0.1  +0.0  -0.0  -0.0  -0.1
DG6FL                                          +1.0  +0.2  +0.0  +0.4
DK0TE      +0.2  +0.3  +1.5  +1.8  +1.4  +1.0  +0.6  +0.5  +0.4  +1.4
DK3WW      -0.1  -0.1  -0.0  +0.1  +0.3  +0.1  -0.0  +0.1  +0.2  +0.0
DK8NE            +0.4                    +2.0        -0.5        +0.2
DK9IP      +0.2  +0.0  +0.1  +0.2  +0.3  +0.3  +0.1  +0.0  +0.1  +0.2
DK9IP-1    +0.1  +0.1  +0.1  +0.2  +0.2  +0.1  +0.1  +0.1  -0.0  +0.1
DL0LA      +0.1  +0.1  +0.1  +0.2  +0.1  +0.1  +0.2  -0.0  +0.2  -0.0
DL0PF     +10.7 +10.5 +10.2 +11.2 +11.1 +10.8 +11.2 +10.3 +11.0  +8.0
DL1AXX                       -1.5  -0.6  -1.2  -1.7  -0.9  -0.9  -1.0
DL1HWS     +0.5  +0.5  +0.7  +0.9  +0.7  +0.7  +0.0  -1.1  -1.5  -1.4
DL1HWS-3   +0.7  +0.6  +0.7  +1.0  +0.6  +0.7  +0.8  +0.8  +0.8  +0.8
DL1HWS-4   +1.0  +0.8  +0.9  +1.1  +0.7  +0.7  +0.5  +0.9  +0.6  +0.6
DL5RCN    +13.3                                                 +12.0
DL5RMH                                                           +0.1
DL8LAS     +1.5  +1.5  +1.8  +1.9  +1.8  +1.7  +1.6  +1.3  +1.3  +2.0
DL8TG      +0.0  +0.0  +0.1  -0.0  +0.0  +0.1  -0.0  -0.0  -0.0  -0.1
DM5GG      +0.6  +0.6  +0.7  +1.0  +0.8  +0.7  +0.5  +0.7  +0.6  -0.0
DM6EE      -0.0  -0.1  -0.0  -0.0  -0.1  +0.0  +0.1  -0.0  +0.2  +0.1
DO4DXA     -0.0  +0.0  -0.0  +0.0  +0.0  +0.1  +2.1  -0.0  -0.0  -0.0
DR4W       -0.8  -0.9  -1.1  -0.9  -0.5  -0.5  -0.2  -0.6  -0.4  -1.1
E28AC      -1.4  -2.3  -4.3  -3.4  -4.4  -3.1  -1.3  -2.0  -5.0      
EA1RX                                                +0.0        +0.1
EA1URA                       +6.9  +7.1                              
EA2CW      +0.0  +0.1  +0.3  +0.4  +0.4  +0.2  +0.2  +0.2  +0.4  +0.3
EA2RCF-4   +0.3  +0.3  +0.7  +0.6  +0.4  +0.5  +0.6  +0.3  +0.4  +0.4
EA5WU      -0.0  -0.7  -0.1  -0.2  -0.0  +0.3  -0.2  -0.1  -0.1  -0.1
EA7/VE3NZ  -0.1  +0.0                                                
ES2RR      -0.0  -0.0  -0.1  -0.0  -0.1  -0.0  +0.1  -0.1  +0.0  -0.0
ES5PC      +0.0  -0.0  -0.1  +0.0  -0.0  -0.0  -0.1  -0.0  -0.0  -0.1
ET3AA                                               -11.8            
F4GOU      +7.7  +7.7  +8.1  +8.3  +8.0  +7.7  +8.4  +8.1  +8.1  +7.6
F4VVG      +0.1              +0.8  +0.2  +0.2  +0.3  +0.1  +0.8  +0.0
F6KGL                  +0.3  +0.3  +0.2  +0.2  +0.2  +0.0  +0.1  +0.2
F8DGY                                          -1.4  -2.3  -2.6      
G0KTN      +0.4  +0.4  +0.5  +0.6  +0.4  +0.4  +0.4  +0.3  +0.3  +0.5
G0TMX                  -1.1                                      -0.3
G3YPP      +0.6  +0.4  +0.4  +0.7  +0.7  -0.3  +0.4  +0.7  +0.5  +0.7
G4IRN      +0.3  +0.3  +0.2  +0.3  +0.3  +0.3  +0.0  +0.1  -0.0  +0.3
G4ZFE      +0.8  +0.8  +1.0  +1.2  +0.9  +1.1  +1.2  +1.1  +0.9  +1.1
GI4DOH-3   +0.0  +0.1  -0.0  +0.0  +0.1  +0.3  +0.6  +0.2  +0.2  +0.1
GX0FRE     +0.0  +0.3  +0.4  +0.2  +0.2  +0.2  +0.3  +0.2  +0.1  +0.2
HA1VHF     +0.5  +0.8  +1.2  +1.4  +1.2  +1.1  +0.9  +0.9  +1.1  +1.3
HA5PP                        +3.3                                    
HA6PX      +0.0  -0.0  +0.0  -0.0  +0.1  -0.1  -0.0  -0.0  -0.1  -0.1
HA8TKS     +0.1  +0.2  +0.3  +0.3  +0.1  +0.2  +0.3  +0.1  +0.3  +0.2
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N8DXE            +0.0                                                
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OG73X                                                            -3.3
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ON4EM                                                            +0.0
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ON7KEC                                                           +4.2
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PA2SQ            +0.8                                                
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PA5KT-14   -0.8  +0.7                                                
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UT5R-1                                                           +4.3
UT5R                                                             +5.6
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VK2RH                                          +0.0  +0.0  +0.0  +0.4
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VK3VB                                    +0.0                        
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W3DAN            +0.0                                            +3.1
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WW1L                                                       -0.5      
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YO2MAX                             +0.1  +0.1  +0.1  -0.0            
ZL2KS      -6.1  -4.0  -4.5                          -3.0  -4.8  -2.0
ZL3X                         +0.5  -1.2  -1.7  -1.5  -0.2  -1.6  -1.0
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ZS1NN      -5.4  -4.8  -4.9  -4.5  -5.0  -4.5  -5.6  -4.9  -7.5  -4.4

Last updated 2025-08-20 00:10:29 UTC

Anchor skimmers

The below skimmers use external frequency references and are confirmed to have continuous, high accuracy. Their accuracy is also confirmed against each other on a daily basis.

DF7GB ES2RR KM3T-5 LZ3CB LZ4UX OE9GHV WB6BEE 

Last updated 2025-08-20 00:10:29 UTC

It is the owners of these skimmers who make this web page possible. Thank you.

To get good geographic coverage and a good size dataset, a two-step method is used for the analysis shown above. Since the second step also relies on spots from skimmers with slightly lower accuracy the displayed error for the anchor skimmers may not always be 0.0, even though they are perfectly accurate.

Software

The software powering this page can be found on github.