[Dxspider-support] Dxspider-support Digest, Vol 185, Issue 5

Jon Anhold jon at anhold.com
Sat Jun 16 20:22:27 BST 2018


Dirk,

I know a bit of perl (I'm "perlguy9" on twitter). It's been awhile, but if
you point me in the right direction of how you were working on hooking the
rbn.pl into the cluster, I'd be happy to spend a little time on it.

73 de KM8V

On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 7:00 AM <dxspider-support-request at dxcluster.org>
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> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:15:05 -0400
> From: Ron Gibson <ve3cgr at sympatico.ca>
> To: dxspider-support at dxcluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] RBN
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> Hi Dirk,
> Can we have a reminder as to how to switch to the mojo branch?
> Ron
> VE3CGR
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> 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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