<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dirk,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks for you feedback. You are the author so I respect your decision. Thanks for the job that you did with adding RBN.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mike,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am already using the filters of AR cluster to see what I want to see. As a sysop of DX Spider S50DXS I wanted to have this at my node as well, but I guess that is not going to happen.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The filter that I use with AR cluster is:</div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">set dx filter (band = 160 or band = 80 or band = 40 or band = 20 or band = 15 or band = 10 or band = 6 or band = 4) and ((call = s53m or call = s50c or call = s52zw or call = s53mm or call = s57al or call = s59abc or call = s53zo or call = 9a5y or call = s50w) or (skimmer and not skimdupe and (skimunknown or skimvalid or skimqsy) and (spottercont = eu)) OR (not skimmer and spottercont = eu) or ((skimunknown or skimvalid or skimqsy) and (spotter = s53m-# or spotter = s50c-# or spotter = OE9GHV-#)))</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">Translated to human language that is:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">- see spots for the bands that I have (160m - 4m)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">- see all my S53M spots and spots from the competitors and friends that I want to follow during the contest, e.g. to see their band changes </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">- see EU skimmer spots with CT1BOH algorithm</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">- see EU human spots</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">- see all spots from my skimmer (S53M-#) and two others that I like and trust</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">What Dirk did with RBN feed is impressive and in a way better that AR cluster offers. Great tool. For my own spots I will find a solution.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">73</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">Simon, S53ZO</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 14 Aug 2020, at 18:45, Michael Carper, Ph.D. <<a href="mailto:mike@wa9pie.net" class="">mike@wa9pie.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br class="">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Michael Carper, Ph.D.</strong> <span dir="auto" class=""><<a href="mailto:mike@wa9pie.net" class="">mike@wa9pie.net</a>></span><br class="">Date: Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 4:00 PM<br class="">Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Seeing all your spots<br class="">To: The DXSpider Support list <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" class="">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Simon... why don't you just get Ham Radio Deluxe... create a filter for your call... and you can do that right now?</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Mike, VK4EIE, WA9PIE</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><div class=""><span id="cid:ii_kdttnnph0"><image.png></span><br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 10:58 AM Simon Ravnič via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank" class="">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="">I would like to ask you to please reconsider adding this feature again. A must feature for a RBN cluster.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To summarise, I would like to see all spots of my call, so when I call CQ I can see the world lit up. Good for monitoring change in propagation when running CQ.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">73</div><div class="">Simon, S53ZO<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 12 Jul 2020, at 02:56, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank" class="">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class="">
<div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Within some pretty tight limits, yes. But you should be careful a) what you wish for because b) when I last looked I was receiving ~150,000 spots / hour, of which I was getting ~5500 useful spots (~3%). I will put it on the list. If the rate of bustedness is generally as bad as Lee suggests then we will chop that number of useful spots down even more. </p><p dir="ltr" class="">But I have observed that the compression rate (if that is a reasonable way of describing it) decreases from about 10% when spot rate is in the 5000/hour area yielding around 500 deliverables, 50000 yields 3500, 100000 yields about 5000.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">I do wonder whether all this extra "diversity" is really the most efficient way of going about things. The returns diminish really quite quickly. There are a finite number of people contesting and one really doesn't need to send more rbn spots than is necessary to qualify any particular station.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">It will interesting to see the hourly stats after contest finishes.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">Dirk</p>
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A request. When calling CQ it is very nice to see which skimmers in the world copy your signal. Would it be possible to add a bypass to all the great filtering you made and show all the spots from RBN feed for a chosen callsign?
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<tt class=""><font size="+1" class="">TL&DR<br class=""> <br class=""> The Reverse Beacon Network DXSpider client is here!<br class=""> <br class=""> If you want to see what it does: connect to <a href="http://gb7djk.dxcluster.net/" target="_blank" class="">gb7djk.dxcluster.net</a> 7300, login and then type 'help rbn'.<br class=""> <br class=""> If you are a 'master' branch read UPGRADE.mojo, do what it says, then read RBN.mojo for instructions and information about the RBN interface. You will be able to read both documents in either branch. You should stop the node before doing the 'git pull --all; git checkout --track mojo origin/mojo'.<br class=""> <br class=""> </font></tt>
<tt class=""><font size="+1" class=""><tt class=""><font size="+1" class=""> If you are on the 'mojo' branch, then read RBN.mojo and, if necessary, do what it says and read UPGRADE.mojo. Particularly if you have a build number under 276.<br class=""> <br class=""> Have fun.<br class=""> <br class=""> 73 Dirk G1TLH<br class=""> </font></tt></font></tt>
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