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

[Rene Olsen]

Hi.

Does this mean that we can get selfspots every 3 minutes from 5000+ users or whatever?

If thats the case it is just stupid.

If it is really the case, it makes one wonder if it is even worth running a spider node anymore. It 
will totally ruin the entire idea of DX clusters. Which is not to allow some OZ station or 
whatever, to send self spot every 3 minutes 24/7.

Just my opinion.

Vy 73 de Rene / OZ1LQH

On 12 Jan 2025 at 18:54, Björn Ekelund via Dxspider- wrote:

> 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 4:35PM 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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