[Dxspider-support] Seeing all your spots

[Michael Carper, Ph.D.]

Simon... why don't you just get Ham Radio Deluxe... create a filter for
your call... and you can do that right now?

Mike, VK4EIE, WA9PIE

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On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 10:58 AM Simon Ravnič via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> I would like to ask you to please reconsider adding this feature again. A
> must feature for a RBN cluster.
>
> To summarise, I would like to see all spots of my call, so when I call CQ
> I can see the world lit up. Good for monitoring change in propagation when
> running CQ.
>
> 73
> Simon, S53ZO
>
> On 12 Jul 2020, at 02:56, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <
> dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Within some pretty tight limits, yes. But you should be careful a) what
> you wish for because b) when I last looked I was receiving ~150,000 spots /
> hour, of which I was getting ~5500 useful spots (~3%). I will put it on the
> list. If the rate of bustedness is generally as bad as Lee suggests then we
> will chop that number of useful spots down  even more.
>
> But I have observed that the compression rate (if that is a reasonable way
> of describing it)  decreases from about 10% when spot rate is in the
> 5000/hour area  yielding around 500 deliverables, 50000 yields 3500, 100000
> yields about 5000.
>
> I do wonder whether all this extra "diversity" is really the most
> efficient way of going about things. The returns diminish really quite
> quickly. There are a finite number of people contesting and one really
> doesn't need to send more rbn spots than is necessary to qualify any
> particular station.
>
> It will interesting to see the hourly stats after contest finishes.
>
> Dirk
>
> 11 Jul 2020 18:09:39 Simon Ravnič <s53zo at t-2.net>:
>
> Great stuff, TNX.
>
> S50DXS is up and running with new RBN feed. No big impact on CPU.
>
> A request. When calling CQ it is very nice to see which skimmers in the
> world copy your signal. Would it be possible to add a bypass to all the
> great filtering you made and show all the spots from RBN feed for a chosen
> callsign?
>
> TNX & 73
> Simon, S53ZO
>
> On 9 Jul 2020, at 23:38, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <
> dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>
> TL&DR
>
> The Reverse Beacon Network DXSpider client is here!
>
> If you want to see what it does: connect to gb7djk.dxcluster.net 7300,
> login and then type 'help rbn'.
>
> If you are a 'master' branch read UPGRADE.mojo, do what it says, then read
> RBN.mojo for instructions and information about the RBN interface. You will
> be able to read both documents in either branch. You should stop the node
> before doing the 'git pull --all; git checkout --track mojo origin/mojo'.
>
> If you are on the 'mojo' branch, then read RBN.mojo and, if necessary, do
> what it says and read UPGRADE.mojo. Particularly if you have a build number
> under 276.
>
> Have fun.
>
> 73 Dirk G1TLH
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