[Dxspider-support] Analysing debug log to show spot routes

[Keith, G6NHU]

All,

I’ve written a shell script that reads the contents of debug files (either plain .dat or compressed using Kin’s utility) and displays the number of spots received from each node partner, which it works out by looking at ‘route: [callsign]’ at the end of each spot line.  It deliberately doesn’t include the current day as that would skew the average figures.

I keep 31 days of compressed debug files.

It’s just something I was interested to know.

I don’t think this will tabulate very well so I’ve attached the output as a text file as well as the script itself.

Save the script somewhere in your path, such as /usr/local/bin, use chmod +x total_count.sh to make it executable and then you can either run it from within your debug directory or run it from anywhere, specifying the debug directory path as a working directory.

Note, this is not spots which originate at each node partner, it’s spots which were passed to my node from each partner.  The results don’t necessarily indicate that any node partner is better or worse than any other.

73 Keith.

Route Spots Daily Average Percentage
------ ----- ------------- ----------
DH1TW-2 106093 3315 34.91%
GB7VAX 47342 1479 15.58%
G1FEF-2 44648 1395 14.69%
OZ5BBS-7 27732 867 9.13%
PI4CC 19241 601 6.33%
WA9PIE-2 12051 377 3.97%
IW1FRU-74 10996 344 3.62%
WB3FFV-2 9690 303 3.19%
N6WS-6 6837 214 2.25%
R5ACQ-1 4688 146 1.54%
JA4PXC-11 3969 124 1.31%
W1DX 3626 113 1.19%
VK5GR-2 1753 55 0.58%
G0TRT-9 1491 47 0.49%
IZ2LSC-99 1469 46 0.48%
MX0NCA-2 1188 37 0.39%
IW2NOY-2 914 29 0.30%
DB0FFS 146 5 0.05%
N2KI 2 0 0.00%
-------- -------- ------------- ----------
TOTAL 303876 9496

Number of days: 32

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