[Dxspider-support] How to follow log info?

[Michael Carper]

By the way... I missed a question...

The spotter was P29FG (6th field) and he spotted this on WB3FFV-2 (9th
field).

Mike, WA9PIE

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Michael Carper <mike at wa9pie.net> wrote:

> This is a CC11 string.  This is the caret-delimited format that DXSpider
> and CC Cluster use to send the spots to logging software (like CC User and
> HRD Logbook... and maybe others; but I'm guessing that one of your users
> contacted you because their using HRD Logbook and changed the view from
> "Show Spots" to "Show Console" and doesn't know how they got there or how
> to put it back.
>
> This particular spot originated on your cluster node... but by the looks
> of it, this was received by someone on a CC Cluster node.  (CC11 on CC
> Cluster uses 25 fields and DXSpider only uses the first 20).
>
> If you really need to know how those fields are defined, let me know.
>
> When a user connects to a CC Cluster or DXSpider node, the software (like
> CC User, HRD Logbook...etc) will change the format from the boring
> six-field columnar format to this extended CC11 format.  If they're looking
> at the "Spot View", then the software will "decipher" this string and
> they'll see spots aligned to whatever data fields they want displayed.  If
> they're looking at the console view, they'll get (what is basically) a
> telnet session view... which is what you're user sent you here.
>
> (On a related note, AR Cluster does something similar called an AR17
> format.)
>
> Anyway... if they're using HRD Logbook, just tell them to click on "Show"
> in the DX Cluster pane and change the view from "Console" to "Spots" and
> he'll be all joyous and happy.
>
> Mike, Wa9PIE
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Howard Leadmon <howard at leadmon.net>
> wrote:
>
>>  I had another ham drop me an email, and ask me if the following came from
>> my system, and if so who made the post.
>>
>>
>> CC11^50110.0^K5RK^08-Dec-2014^2356^+40DB^P29FG^23^WB3FFV-2^HG8PRC^7^4^51^28^
>> TX^^K^P2^EL29^^^^29.5/95^^
>>
>> I am not exactly sure how to decode all of the various info in the above
>> line, so I don't honestly know if it originated here, but I am guessing it
>> most likely was just a spot that passed through my node.   If anyone can
>> fill me in on how you decipher the above, if you need to track something
>> down, it would sure be helpful..
>>
>> 73's..
>>
>>
>> ---
>> Howard Leadmon - WB3FFV
>>
>>
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