[Dxspider-support] POTA / SOTA feeds?

[Terry Hunt]

Thanks Tim,
So far you are the only one who has responded.  At this point, I think I am going to proceed with onboarding a feed from the US as well.  If it creates any issues, we can address it at that time but I don't see where it should.  it just gave me pause when someone said they used to do it with another node but was asked to take it down and I didn't want to knowingly create issues.

Thanks Again,
Terry

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From: Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces at tobit.co.uk> on behalf of Tim Tuck via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 2:50 AM
To: dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
Cc: Tim Tuck <vk2xax at skybase.net>
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] POTA / SOTA feeds?


Hi Terry,

Dunno about specific feeds but our node dx.vkspotter.com:7300 takes a feed from the local POTA/SOTA cluster VK3HRA-2 which is...


https://parksnpeaks.org/index.php


and we get spots thus...

[cid:6ff745b3-accd-4a18-8027-4aa99c921b99]


I haven't seen them to be "noisy"


cheers


Tim

Admin of dx.vkspotter.com


On 11/3/24 06:25, terry--- via Dxspider-support wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I am a new user to N3FJP and there has been a thread between their customers asking about SOTA and POTA spot feed support.  It has been stated that there apparently used to be feeds from these entities that directly feed into the cluster network but that they were asked to take them down due to noise and possibly the interference with contests?

Does anyone have any more information related to the history of these feeds?  I would have assumed they would have come into the network with SOTA or POTA in the comment or a standard spotter which could then be filtered out for those not wanting to see them?  With POTA being an international thing (and I like to play POTA a bit myself), I was hoping there would be a way to bring these feeds back into the network.  I would not mind using my node as an onramp but wanted to reach out to the group for feedback as a first step.

Thanks,
Terry, K4hnt
dxc.thenuttyhunt.house:7300


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