Reverse Beacon Network Data
I'll be uploading files containing the Reverse Beacon data in a couple of different formats, making them available here for others to analyze.
Of course there are invalid callsigns in the dataset but here are some interesting numbers from the raw RBN dataset February 21 2009 - July 15 2012
- 518,596 Unique "DX" callsigns
- 11,121 /P portable callsigns
- 9,501 /# callsigns
- 5,429 /QRP callsigns
- 3,389 /M mobile callsigns
- 581 /MM maritime mobile callsigns
- 142 /QRPP callsigns
- 18 /AM air mobile callsigns
Microsoft Access .accdb Format:
4.5 GB compressed / uncompressed = 22.5 GB
- rbn-skimmer-2009.rar
- rbn-skimmer-2010.rar
- rbn-skimmer-2011.rar
- rbn-skimmer-2012.rar
- rbn-skimmer-2013-partial.rar (January 1 - June 7)
SQLite .db Format:
4.4 GB compressed / 25.4 GB uncompressed