[Dxspider-support] RBN

Wed Jun 13 13:43:23 BST 2018

Hi

I am an inexperienced Linux user so after reading the emails regarding Dxspider and RBN and after a deep intake of breath I decided to update the GB7DXG-1 node to the Mojo branch.
Surprisingly for me it all went ok so a big thanks to Dirk for his notes which I followed.

I have found and have running the RBN.pl. My understanding is that this is  some development code that Dirk is working on but I could be wrong here so my question is  there any way to get RBN spots into Dxspider at the moment or do I wait until Dirk has some spare time to add this feature in Dxspider ?

73 Keith GU6EFB GB7DXG-1

From: Dxspider-support [mailto:dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org] On Behalf Of djk via Dxspider-support
Sent: 12 June 2018 23:31
To: dxspider-support at dxcluster.org
Cc: djk
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] RBN

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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