[Dxspider-support] RBN
Ron Gibson
ve3cgr at sympatico.ca
Fri Jun 15 22:15:05 BST 2018
Hi Dirk,
Can we have a reminder as to how to switch to the mojo branch?
Ron
VE3CGR
On 6/12/2018 6:31 PM, djk via Dxspider-support wrote:
>
> 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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