[Dxspider-support] A couple of new command suggestions

[Ian Morrison]

SH/DX works fine with Logger32 and DXSpider. I would think that the problem
was with the user end software as opposed to the cluster.

73 de Ian
VE3IEM

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brendan Minish" <ei6iz at newsguy.com>
To: "The DXSpider Support list" <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: April 28, 2003 8:54 AM
Subject: [Dxspider-support] A couple of new command suggestions


> Hi All
>
> I have a couple of suggestions for additional commands That I would like
to
> see in Dxspider at some stage.
>
> 1/
> SH/FDX
>
> Show formatted DX this would work exactly like the current SH/DX command
> except that the output format would be in the same form as normal spot
data
>
> I.e
>
> DX de JA1FNA:    18074.0  TX4PG                                 1227Z
>
> instead of the normal SH/DX format
>
> 18074.0  TX4PG       28-Apr-2003 1227Z                        <JA1FNA>
>
>
> Reason for adding this command is that quite a few logging packages expect
> data in the
> DX de format or treat spots in the DX de format differently
>
> this command is currently available on AK1A Clusters
>
>
> 2/ SET/STRIP and UNSET/STRIP
>
>
> A console display formatting option to strip out all unnecessary spaces
> from Spots etc.
>
>
> I.e
>
> DX de JA1FNA:    18074.0  TX4PG                                 1227Z
>
> becomes
> DX de JA1FNA: 18074.0 TX4PG 1227Z
>
> and
> 18074.0  TX4PG       28-Apr-2003 1227Z                        <JA1FNA>
> Becomes
> 18074.0 TX4PG 28-Apr-2003 1227Z <JA1FNA>
>
> Another possibility would be to replace the separator spaces with ^
instead
> like
> DX de JA1FNA:^18074.0^TX4PG^1227Z
> and
> 18074.0^TX4PG^28-Apr-2003^1227Z^<JA1FNA>
>
> Using a separator such as ^ may make parsing easier but is more likely to
> confuse logging software.
>
> Reason for wanting this.
> To improve the appearance of spot display on small devices such as mobile
> phones and electronic organisers.
> To reduce costs of maintaining a connection to the cluster via GPRS (which
> is billed per byte transferred, including ASCII spaces..)
> Removing the spaces would roughly halve the cost of maintaining a GPRS
> connection to a cluster, I can currently get about 80 spots per 10K unit
(~
> 7.5 Cent ( 0.075 ?))
>
> There is a Java Telnet Midlet that will run on some mobile devices
> http://www.mutelnet.com/
>
>
> 73
> Brendan EI6IZ
>
>
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