[Cluster-tech] Client protocol for Spider

[Simon (HB9DRV)]

Hi,

You can get all spots in a nicely delimited format by issuing a 'special' 
command set/ve7cc which changes the format of received data.

This is what I'm doing with a new Windows-based logbook and get all the data 
I want.

Look at VE7CC's Windows program - he uses the ve7cc option. I was thinking 
about wring a client which connects into the DX Spider network but there's 
really no need.

Simon Brown, HB9DRV
www.ham-radio-deluxe.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Clarke" <clarkema at gmail.com>
>
> Having played with my local cluster node and had a look at the Spider
> source, it seems there are a couple of options for a client program
> wishing to talk to the cluster:
>
> a) screen-scrape; or,
> b) use the PC protocol.
>
> Neither of these options seems ideal.  Screen-scraping an interface
> designed primarily with a human user in mind is never fun, and always
> fragile.  Equally, from what I understand of the PC protocol, it's 
> designed
> mainly for cluster-to-cluster communication, and would need extending to
> support concepts such as registration.