[Cluster-tech] spider's DE length

[Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB]

Hi Dirk,

First, sorry, the DE info is being cropped at 7 chars...

The actual scenario is that we are feeding an isolate node,
k4td.com:7300, with spots coming from the reverse beacon network.

Those spots come tagged as callsign-# so, for example, VE2WU-#, being 7
char in length is cropped as: VE2WU-# (the ":" is missing, see below).
Some logging programs are rejecting these spots, most likely because the
missing ":" .

DX de K4TD-#:    14044.9  K2LP    RBN 23 dB  25 WPM  CQ <K4TD-0  1245Z
DX de N4ZR-#:    14045.0  K2LP    RBN 15 dB  22 WPM  CQ <K4TD-0  1246Z
DX de VE2WU-#    14027.4  K2ETS   RBN 16 dB  20 WPM  CQ <K4TD-0  1247Z

I am looking for a way to fit the string on it, keeping the #.
It would be important to keep the #, because it lets software like N1MM
tag spots which have been generated by robots.

73 TU,

Felipe

Dirk Koopman G1TLH wrote:
> Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB wrote:
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> Our spider cluster is cropping the DE callsigns on spots to a maximum of
>> 6 chars. Is there a way to raise that limit, or should the code be
>> tweaked directly?
>>
> 
> Please can you give some examples from the debug file. I would like an 
> example of what comes in and the resultant output.
> 
> This is a limit for certain operations (dupe checking and such) but the 
> actual spotted called length is 20 characters (from memory).
> 
> There are restrictions on callsign, but they are to do with format, 
> rather than length.
> 
> Dirk G1TLH
> 

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