[Dxspider-support] Self-spotting and de-duplication

[Björn Ekelund]

Some of the default settings of DXSpider seem optimized for users staring
at the telnet feed.

In my scripts/startup I have added

set/var $RBN::respottime = 180
set/var $Spot::minselfspotqrg  0

A cluster node should never suppress a self spot. The minimum self spotting
periodicity is set
by the contest's rules and the cluster should never interfere with this.
Typical minimum periods for
self spotting in contests are between 3 and 10 minutes.

If DXSpider does suppress self spots under certain conditions I would like
to know how to disable this.

Björn SM7IUN

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> Now that self spotting is allowed for a trial period in all RSGB HF
> contests, I’ve been asked about self-spotting and submitting duplicate
> spots by a couple of my users.
>
> Some time ago I set minselfspotqrg to 0 to allow self spotting but what is
> the situation regarding duplicates because I understand some logging
> software can now self spot every few minutes.  I don’t necessarily agree
> with this but it’s going to happen more and more.
>
> What’s the period during which the cluster will reject a self spot as a
> dupe please and is there a variable that can be tweaked to adjust it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> 73 Keith.
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