I really enjoy the reverse beacon network. It's been a tremendous first-blush check of whether or not the little Rockmite is working, and how far out the signal is getting. Having said that, it hasn't been useful in the way I think it might be for big contesting stations. I always imagine someone sitting in their plush chair locked away in a shack watching the RBN . A path pops up on the map to some faraway DX station. Said ham leaps into motion clacking several switches to bring the appropriate antennas, tuners, and amplifiers into play for the band the dx station happens to be on, and then belts out a 100+ Watt signal to make the QSO. But, that's not how it works with the Rockmite when you live in a densely populated urban area like San Francisco. Typically, the radio and I aren't even at home, much less in a shack. We're perched on the side of a mountain somewhere because there's less noise, and there are whole swaths of hams like SOTA and POTA that want to...