[Dxspider-support] SHOW/DX ignoring old spots

[Arnold (EA1CYZ)]

On Thu, 05 May 2005 21:10:53 +0200, Robert Chalmas <rchalmas at users.ch>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just noted that the basic SHOW/DX command ignores all spots
> which are more then 99 days old (= issued before 26-JAN-2005).
>
> Older spots seems to be visible only with SHOW/DX DAY.
> For example, with "SHOW/DX DAY 100" I can see that VP8CM/MM was
> (erroneously !) spotted on 25-JAN-2005 but with "SHOW/DX VP8CM/MM"
> nothnig is found. This can be reproduced with all callsigns.
>
> I tested this on my node and 5 others (GB7DJK, WR3D, HP2AT-4,
> EA1URF-5, W6KK) with similar results.
>
> So why are old spots not found with the basic SHOW/DX command ?
> Is there a way to control how far the search algorithm looks
> into the old files, or is this a bug ?
>

Robert,

I don't think it's a bug, if I understand it well those parameters are  
defined in /spider/perl/Spot.pm

(search for $maxdays)

Like always if you want to make changes copy Spot.pm to /spider/local and  
make the changes in /spider/local/Spot.pm


-- 
'73 Arnold EA1CYZ /  PA4AB