[Dxspider-support] RBN

[Philip Gladstone]

I run a dxspider node on pskreporter.info:7300 that just contains all 
the pskreporter spots (mostly JT65 spots). It isn't clear that it is a 
useful way of presenting the information.... I'm open to ways of 
improving it.... In particular, it is unclear what people want to do 
with the data stream...

Philip

On 03/01/2017 06:42, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support wrote:
> <tin hat>
> Over the New Year holidays I have been poking around the RBN network 
> as I have had the odd request about doing something with it. In order 
> to assess the situation, I wrote a little program to gauge what the 
> impact might be if a node where to connect to the RDN and serve 
> selected spots locally - to be clear - I won't be distributing (even 
> very filtered) RBN spots unless there is a very clear mandate from the 
> sysops for me to do that. The idea is that sysops will decide whether 
> to connect to RBN and their users whether to opt in to receive them 
> ([un]set/rbn).
>
> If I do go forward with this, it will only happen on the development 
> branch ('mojo') and I intend that there will be some exclusive 
> filtering just for RBN spots (i.e. accept/rbn or accept/spot rbn) with 
> a standard default of something like "accept spots on hf and to/from 
> this zone to/from out of this zone" (a description, not a real filter 
> line).
>
> I would appreciate comments.
>
> <flack jacket>
> And I might do something with beacons and the WSPR network to 
> distribute some form of propagation info as well.
> </flack jacket>
>
> </tin hat>
>
> 73 & HNY Dirk G1TLH
>
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