[Dxspider-support] FTx autogenerated spots

[Dirk Koopman]

In the spirit of discouraging client programs generating spots 
automatically when they work something, or for other reasons that make 
life difficult for sysops and users that don't use digital modes, I have 
introduced the following system variable: *$DXProt::remove_auto_ftx 
*which, as default (in the test branch), is currently set to 1.

DX de WA2JQZ:    28180.0  DL2KBX       FT4 
DM78<>JO30                                      14 1415Z 5
DX de G0LZX:     28074.0  W0JJG        FT8 -15dB 
1265Hz                                     4 1415Z IO83
DX de CP6UA:     24915.0  CP6UA        FT8 FH82jf -> 
FH82jf                                10 1414Z 10
DX de G0LZX:     28074.0  N9AKR        FT8 -13dB from EN61 
200Hz                            4 1414Z IO83
DX de G0LZX:     28074.0  G0JEI        FT8 -20dB 
520Hz                                   IO93 1412Z IO83
DX de WA2JQZ:    28180.0  MW7TTA       FT4 
DM78<>IO73                                    IO73 1411Z 5
DX de IZ0FYO:    28180.0  9Z4Y         FT4 JN61og -> 
FK90                                FK90 1410Z 15
DX de IZ1PLH:    21076.0  BG0HP        FT8 -15 dB from 
NL59                                23 1410Z JN34
DX de WA2JQZ:    28180.0  OT7X         FT4 
DM78<>JO10                                      14 1408Z 5
DX de G0LZX:     28074.0  CE3SOC       FT8 -12dB from FF46 
1295Hz                        FF46 1408Z IO83
DX de YC1JEL:    28180.0  RA4M         FT4 -04dB 
2426Hz                                  LO44 1441Z 28
DX de GM0LIR:    24919.0  6Y7EI        FT4 +06dB 
1585Hz                                     8 1442Z IO85
DX de G0LZX:     28074.0  YC1JEA       FT8 -07dB from OI33 671Hz

would become:

DX de WA2JQZ: 28180.0  DL2KBX       FT4 
DM78<>JO30                                      14 1415Z 5
DX de CP6UA:     24915.0  CP6UA        FT8 FH82jf -> 
FH82jf                                10 1414Z 10
DX de WA2JQZ:    28180.0  MW7TTA       FT4 
DM78<>IO73                                    IO73 1411Z 5
DX de IZ0FYO:    28180.0  9Z4Y         FT4 JN61og -> 
FK90                                FK90 1410Z 15
DX de WA2JQZ:    28180.0  OT7X         FT4 
DM78<>JO10                                      14 1408Z 5

It is, of course, likely that these spots that are left are auto 
generated too - but at least they provide some useful information. If it 
is deemed necessary, I can get rid of these as well, together with all 
the other FTx spots if necessary.

Some people may think this is overkill, but the spot feed is filling up 
with more and more useless spots, most of which are machine generated. 
Someone has to take a stand. Now where did I put that wobbly pedestal I 
bought from the charity shop the other year?

You should be made aware, the place that this is currently done, means 
that these spots are dropped at the PC11/PC61 protocol level - they 
won't be passed onward to other nodes... You may not like that... It 
doesn't have to work this way, it could be a user command. Please see 
the next paragraph.

Someone was complaining that this list is too quiet. Maybe this will 
liven it up.

73 Dirk G1TLH

PS I just got a bit sick of the lack of "normal" v "FTx" spots whilst 
testing the deduping code so I thought "I know, I've meaning to do this 
for ages and it's only an extra 8 lines of code and a few comments".

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