[Dxspider-support] Alternative/additional comment elements in spots

[Joaquin .]

I would bet on keeping the current structure of DXSpider and expanding
it with some more qualifier, but it must be third-party applications
that should be adapted to spider.

Regarding the possibility of receiving all the spots, that is, Q = 1,
this could be implemented with a "set" command.

Kin EA3CV


El jue., 13 ene. 2022 21:54, Björn Ekelund via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> escribió:

> Around 2013 the world renowned contester Jose CT1BOH invented a scheme for
> RBN spot
> quality assessment that was later implemented in AR Cluster Version 6.
>
> Unlike the Q: method in DXSpider, the method never suppresses spots but
> instead tags
> them with a quality assessment.
>
> Since contest loggers like Win-Test and DXLog make use of these tags, ARC6
> nodes have
> been popular with contesters. It however seems it is increasingly
> difficult to get ARC6 nodes
> to run since after the demise of the author since the software only exists
> in binary form
> and Microsoft's updates to the .NET runtime keep killing nodes.
>
> Being the only free cluster software in active development, DXSpider seems
> to be becoming the
> backbone of the DX cluster.
>
> Jose's scheme adds a tag in the rightmost end of the comment field, V for
> validated, ? for unknown,
> B for busted (with an optional corrected call included within
> parentheses), and Q for QSY.
> http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/2013-11/msg00085.html
> http://reversebeacon.blogspot.com/2013/08/testing-spot-quality-filters.html
>
> You can see it live by connecting to any ARC6 cluster node and typing
> "SET DX EXTENSION SKIMMERQUALITY". You can see an example below. There is
> also filtering
> options but these are typically not used for contesting since you do not
> want to miss spots by
> single skimmers.
>
> I (and surely many other contesters) would love to see these tags
> available also from DXSpider.
> Particularly since it seems the end of life for ARC6 is approaching.
>
> I believe that most of the logic required to determine the tags is already
> there and used to determine
> the Q:# elements. Supporting this use case would of course also require
> allowing single skimmer spots
> through, since they are the spots tagged with ?.
>
> Björn SM7IUN
>
> DX de S50ARX-#:  14035.0  RO22NY       CW 21 dB 27 WPM CQ           V 1119Z
> DX de BG4GOV2-#:  7017.0  JH6LDY       CW 6 dB 17 WPM CQ            ? 1119Z
> DX de MM0ZBH-#:  14007.5  EA1EYL       CW 26 dB 20 WPM CQ           V 1119Z
> DX de OH6BG-#:   14035.1  RO22NY       CW 27 dB 27 WPM CQ           V 1119Z
> DX de LZ4UX-#:   14029.0  SQ6IS        CW 6 dB 19 WPM CQ            ? 1119Z
> DX de HB9JCB-#:  21031.3  DL0AET       CW 6 dB 22 WPM CQ    (DL0AA) B 1119Z
> DX de HB9CAT-#:  14025.6  UA9MA        CW 12 dB 32 WPM CQ           V 1119Z
> DX de UA0S-#:    14035.0  RO22NY       CW 3 dB 28 WPM CQ            V 1119Z
> DX de OH4KA-#:    7011.0  LY13LY       CW 5 dB 26 WPM CQ            V 1119Z
> DX de DO4DXA-#:  14007.5  EA1EYL       CW 23 dB 20 WPM CQ           V 1119Z
> DX de DO4DXA-#:  14024.0  RC6AQ        CW 10 dB 23 WPM CQ           Q 1119Z
> DX de TF4X-#:    14051.9  ON6KE        CW 22 dB 18 WPM CQ           ? 1119Z
> DX de OG66X-#:   14051.9  ON6KE        CW 30 dB 19 WPM CQ           V 1119Z
> DX de EA1URA-#:  14051.9  ON6KE        CW 24 dB 19 WPM CQ           V 1119Z
> DX de KP2RUM-#:  14052.0  ON6KE        CW 12 dB 18 WPM CQ           V 1119Z
> DX de R9IR-#:    14037.5  RA4ZA        CW 6 dB 20 WPM CQ            V 1119Z
> DX de RN4WA-#:   14035.0  RO22NY       CW 33 dB 26 WPM CQ           V 1119Z
> DX de K5TR-#:     7038.0  K3Y/9        CW 21 dB 15 WPM CQ           V 1119Z
>
>
>
>
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