[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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