[Dxspider-support] RBN

[djk]

The program rbn.pl is just a simple test program that does some deduping 
and a certain amount of checking. There room for improvement, most of 
which could be made easier by incorporating it into the main DXSpider 
code. Work which I have started doing but, owing to personal 
circumstances, has had to take a back seat until (probably) beginning of 
July. I have started to put some stubs in already, but there are a 
number of issues that I would like to get some guidance on - here are my 
current views :

  * RBN spots should always be local - meaning that they are not
    distributed on the cluster - this implies that each node (that wants
    to handle them) will need to make a connection to the RBN. Note: any
    spots ending in -# will be dropped by existing DXSpider nodes so, in
    fact, it would require a network wide upgrade to distribute them anyway.
  * When the node has established a connection to the RBN, users should
    have actively opt in and have a set of RBN specific filter rules
    separate from the spot rules.
  * Having access to all this realtime signal strength info should allow
    some enhanced propagation prediction. Is anyone interested in this
    sort of thing and, if so (given that the prediction is regarded as
    good) how is to be used by (or communicated to) users?
  * Some time ago one of my sysops wrote a program to provide himself
    with SMS notifications of spots or conditions that he was interested
    in using the filtered output from a connection to a node. Given that
    there other means, these days, of informing users on mobile phones
    that might be cheaper - should be looking this? Twitter, Signal or
    some other mechanism?
  * The mojo branch can be considered mature, if not "finished". Any new
    features will appear on this branch which will appear, somewhen, as
    DXSpider version 2.

Discuss.

Open to any reasonable suggestions.

Dirk G1TLH


On 12/06/18 21:11, Jon Anhold via Dxspider-support wrote:
> Ok, now I've got the mojo branch running, and rbn.pl <http://rbn.pl> 
> "works" - but I must be missing how to feed whatever rbn.pl 
> <http://rbn.pl> spits out to the cluster?
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:34 PM Jon Anhold <jon at anhold.com 
> <mailto:jon at anhold.com>> wrote:
>
>     I've managed to connect from within DXSpider, but I'm not sure how
>     to get RBN to communicate "as a node", or otherwise how to ingest
>     the spots that I am seeing.
>
>     On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:57 AM Michael Walker
>     <mike at portcredit.net <mailto:mike at portcredit.net>> wrote:
>
>         I did a manual connection.
>
>         You will have to modify the connect script looking for call: I
>         guess.  I haven't had a chance to look beyond a manual connection.
>
>         Mike
>
>
>         root at Flex-SoftEther:/var/log# telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net
>         <http://telnet.reversebeacon.net> 7001
>
>         Trying 216.93.248.68...
>         Connected to telnet.reversebeacon.net
>         <http://telnet.reversebeacon.net>.
>         Escape character is '^]'.
>         Please enter your call: va3mw
>
>         Local users =  2
>
>         Current spot rate is 1248 per hour
>
>         VA3MW de SK1MMR-4  12-Jun-2018 15:55Z >
>
>
>         DX de WZ7I-#:    10136.0  OK5CW          FT8  -17 dB   6 BPS 
>         CQ      1555Z
>         DX de WZ7I-#:    18100.0  F6ARS          FT8   -9 dB   6 BPS 
>         CQ      1555Z
>         DX de WZ7I-#:    14074.0  DL2RH          FT8  -16 dB   6 BPS 
>         CQ      1555Z
>         DX de W3OA-#:    21074.0  K0WJ           FT8  -16 dB   6 BPS 
>         CQ      1556Z
>         DX de W3OA-#:    14074.0  WB9JOX         FT8  -17 dB   6 BPS 
>         CQ      1556Z
>         DX de WZ7I-#:    10136.0  PA3CPS         FT8  -15 dB   6 BPS 
>         CQ      1556Z
>         DX de WZ7I-#:    14074.0  MM0HVU         FT8  -17 dB   6 BPS 
>         CQ      1556Z
>         DX de KM3T-2-#:  14074.0  K8EB           FT8   -1 dB   6 BPS 
>         CQ      1556Z
>         DX de W3OA-#:    14074.0  K9DXR          FT8  -17 dB   6 BPS 
>         CQ      1556Z
>         DX de WZ7I-#:    14074.0  E74EBL         FT8   -6 dB   6 BPS 
>         CQ      1556Z
>         DX de WZ7I-#:    18100.0  KC0QIK         FT8   -4 dB   6 BPS 
>         CQ      1556Z
>         DX de WZ7I-#:    14074.0  OZ2BAC         FT8   -6 dB   6 BPS 
>         CQ      1556Z
>
>
>
>         On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Jon Anhold <jon at anhold.com
>         <mailto:jon at anhold.com>> wrote:
>
>             I've tried a whole bunch of things, and different "node"
>             settings for the endpoint, but thusfar no joy..
>
>             On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:54 AM Michael Walker
>             <mike at portcredit.net <mailto:mike at portcredit.net>> wrote:
>
>                 You read  my mind.  :)  I saw the same posting.
>
>                 Mike va3mw
>
>
>                 On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Jon Anhold via
>                 Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org
>                 <mailto:dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>> wrote:
>
>                     Does anyone have any examples of connect scripts
>                     to connect to RBN, and filters or recommendations
>                     on carrying it?
>
>                     Thanks & 73 de KM8V
>
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