[Dxspider-support] FTx autogenerated spots

[Keith, G6NHU]

I’m with Andy on this, I think it should be something for users to decide whether they show them or not.   I want to give my users the choice what they see and not dictate to them.

With one caveat - Node advertising spam announcements which I filter out by having this line in my startup file.  If I could stop forwarding these on, I’d happily do so.

rej/ann node_default input info telnet,cluster,7000,7300,7373,8000,8888,9000,17300,port


73 Keith
On 17 Mar 2025 at 16:44 +0000, g4piq via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>, wrote:
> I generally prefer the principle of dropping spots at the user level rather than on the backbone (unless they are at such a rate as to be dangerous). That way the sysio can configure their node to do what's right fir them and their user base - not what someone else further upstream thinks should be right for them. If we don't apply this principle then the spider ends up becoming closer to a full mesh...
>
> 73
>
> Andy, G4PIQ
>
> Sent from my Galaxy
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
> Date: 17/03/2025 15:14 (GMT+00:00)
> To: Rob Roschewsk via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
> Cc: Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk>
> Subject: [Dxspider-support] FTx autogenerated spots
>
> 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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