<div dir="auto"><pre dir="ltr" style="max-height:999999px;font-size:24px;line-height:32px;background-color:rgb(248,249,250);border:none;padding:10px 0.14em 10px 0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:"google sans",roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;width:361.091px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(32,33,36)"><span style="max-height:999999px">I would bet on keeping the current structure of DXSpider and expanding it with some more qualifier, but it must be third-party applications that should be adapted to spider.
Regarding the possibility of receiving all the spots, that is, Q = 1, this could be implemented with a "set" command.
Kin </span>EA3CV</pre></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El jue., 13 ene. 2022 21:54, Björn Ekelund via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Around 2013 the world renowned contester Jose CT1BOH invented a scheme for RBN spot <div>quality assessment that was later implemented in AR Cluster Version 6. </div><div><br></div><div>Unlike the Q: method in DXSpider, the method never suppresses spots but instead tags </div><div>them with a quality assessment.</div><div><br></div><div>Since contest loggers like Win-Test and DXLog make use of these tags, ARC6 nodes have </div><div>been popular with contesters. It however seems it is increasingly difficult to get ARC6 nodes </div><div>to run since after the demise of the author since the software only exists in binary form </div><div>and Microsoft's updates to the .NET runtime keep killing nodes.</div><div><br></div><div>Being the only free cluster software in active development, DXSpider seems to be becoming the </div><div>backbone of the DX cluster.</div><div><br></div><div>Jose's scheme adds a tag in the rightmost end of the comment field, V for validated, ? for unknown, </div><div>B for busted (with an optional corrected call included within parentheses), and Q for QSY.</div><div><a href="http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/2013-11/msg00085.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/2013-11/msg00085.html</a><br></div><div><a href="http://reversebeacon.blogspot.com/2013/08/testing-spot-quality-filters.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://reversebeacon.blogspot.com/2013/08/testing-spot-quality-filters.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>You can see it live by connecting to any ARC6 cluster node and typing </div><div>"SET DX EXTENSION SKIMMERQUALITY". You can see an example below. There is also filtering </div><div>options but these are typically not used for contesting since you do not want to miss spots by </div><div>single skimmers.</div><div><br></div><div>I (and surely many other contesters) would love to see these tags available also from DXSpider. </div><div>Particularly since it seems the end of life for ARC6 is approaching.</div><div><br></div><div>I believe that most of the logic required to determine the tags is already there and used to determine </div><div>the Q:# elements. Supporting this use case would of course also require allowing single skimmer spots </div><div>through, since they are the spots tagged with ?.</div><div><br></div><div>Björn SM7IUN<br></div><div><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace">DX de S50ARX-#: 14035.0 RO22NY CW 21 dB 27 WPM CQ V 1119Z<br>DX de BG4GOV2-#: 7017.0 JH6LDY CW 6 dB 17 WPM CQ ? 1119Z<br>DX de MM0ZBH-#: 14007.5 EA1EYL CW 26 dB 20 WPM CQ V 1119Z<br>DX de OH6BG-#: 14035.1 RO22NY CW 27 dB 27 WPM CQ V 1119Z<br>DX de LZ4UX-#: 14029.0 SQ6IS CW 6 dB 19 WPM CQ ? 1119Z<br>DX de HB9JCB-#: 21031.3 DL0AET CW 6 dB 22 WPM CQ (DL0AA) B 1119Z<br>DX de HB9CAT-#: 14025.6 UA9MA CW 12 dB 32 WPM CQ V 1119Z<br>DX de UA0S-#: 14035.0 RO22NY CW 3 dB 28 WPM CQ V 1119Z<br>DX de OH4KA-#: 7011.0 LY13LY CW 5 dB 26 WPM CQ V 1119Z<br>DX de DO4DXA-#: 14007.5 EA1EYL CW 23 dB 20 WPM CQ V 1119Z<br>DX de DO4DXA-#: 14024.0 RC6AQ CW 10 dB 23 WPM CQ Q 1119Z<br>DX de TF4X-#: 14051.9 ON6KE CW 22 dB 18 WPM CQ ? 1119Z<br>DX de OG66X-#: 14051.9 ON6KE CW 30 dB 19 WPM CQ V 1119Z<br>DX de EA1URA-#: 14051.9 ON6KE CW 24 dB 19 WPM CQ V 1119Z<br>DX de KP2RUM-#: 14052.0 ON6KE CW 12 dB 18 WPM CQ V 1119Z<br>DX de R9IR-#: 14037.5 RA4ZA CW 6 dB 20 WPM CQ V 1119Z<br>DX de RN4WA-#: 14035.0 RO22NY CW 33 dB 26 WPM CQ V 1119Z<br>DX de K5TR-#: 7038.0 K3Y/9 CW 21 dB 15 WPM CQ V 1119Z<br></font></div><div><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div></div><div><br></div></div>
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