<div dir="ltr"><div>Folks, if you look at the linked thread you can see that spots are considered dupes despite:<br clear="all"></div><div><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">1) QRG is very different
2) comments are different
3) delta time between them is more than 3 hours.</pre></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno mar 14 gen 2025 alle ore 09:28 Björn Ekelund via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">What does these numbers mean? Is your re-spotting timer really one hour?<div><div><br></div><div>Do you know what variable controls the minimum frequency change for a spot to </div><div>be considered not a dupe? Today it seems to be around 5kHz which is far, far too much. </div><div><br></div><div>Björn SM7IUN</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM Kin via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="ES"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span>is</span> <span>advisable</span> <span>not</span> <span>to</span> <span>touch</span> Stop.pm. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span>would</span> be <span>enough</span> <span>to</span> do:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">set/<span>var</span> $<span>Spot::</span><span>dupage</span> = XXXX<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">set/<span>var</span> $<span>Spot::</span><span>timegranularity</span> = ZZZZ<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The default <span>values</span> I <span>have</span> are:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">$<span>Spot::</span><span>dupage</span> = 3600<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">$<span>Spot::</span><span>timegranularity</span> = 600<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Regards</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Kin EA3CV<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">De:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk</a>> <b>En nombre de </b>Simon Ravnic via Dxspider-support<br><b>Enviado el:</b> lunes, 13 de enero de 2025 23:58<br><b>Para:</b> The DXSpider Support list <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>><br><b>CC:</b> Simon Ravnič <<a href="mailto:s53zo@t-2.net" target="_blank">s53zo@t-2.net</a>><br><b>Asunto:</b> Re: [Dxspider-support] Self-spotting and de-duplication<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>There is an easy way to change it locally. In perl/Spot.pm change<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>dupage = 120; <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>timegranularity = 120; <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>to allow a dupe spot every 120 seconds. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>The issue that remains is that such post is visible only on the original node. It appears that it gets deduped on your partner nodes and is therefore not propagated to the network.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>With the new contesting rules where more and more of them allow self-spotting I believe the network should accommodate to this fact.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>73<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Simon, S53ZO<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>S50DXS sysop<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><br><u></u><br><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>On 13 Jan 2025, at 22:05, IZ2LSC via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Back to the main topic, <br clear="all"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Based on tests I did in the past, the logic behind the deduplication is not clear, or at least I cannot understand it.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Sometime ago I already wrote about this topic in the list, but no one answered.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>I have seen many time spots classified as dupe even if a very long time has passed from last spot.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>I also tried to change some parameters on the cluster configuration, but with no luck.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>I end up by clearing on my cluster the dupe file every hour, to make the deduplication less aggressive.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>73<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Andrea, IZ2LSC<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>--><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Il giorno lun 13 gen 2025 alle ore 19:37 Björn Ekelund via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> ha scritto:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Don't worry, my toes may be large but they can handle a good stepping. <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>When I put ham radio aside around 1990 for family and career reasons, DX clusters did <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>not really exist so when I returned in 2016 I had already missed the early days of clusters <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>where all spots were made by humans and the terminal bell went off every time a spot arrived.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>I can understand there may be hams wanting to stay with that. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>I enjoy CW for pretty much the same nostalgic reasons.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>I'm of course perfectly fine with there being cluster nodes set up and optimized <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>for this type of old school usage. As long the cluster software does not enforce it <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>or prevents more modern ways. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>However, the way I see it, a casual user actually has ever more reason to embrace a <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>more modern cluster usage. The casual user does not spend endless hours by the radio <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>so he should have good reasons to maximize his productivity and/or fun. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Having a software (like SpotCollector or HRDLog) monitor the cluster and present <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>maps or lists or graphs with needed DXCC band slots, friends, event stations, etc. is a great <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>way to do exactly this. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>And when you have a piece of software to collect your spots, information overload is no longer <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>an issue and you can tap into as many information sources as you like; RBN, PSKReporter, IRC, etc. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>To get even more productive and have more fun. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>But there are of course different definitions of fun. People do a lot of things that are difficult or <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>uncomfortable for fun. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>So perhaps I should have used a bit more respectful language when describing the practices of <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>the early days of clusters.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Björn SM7IUN<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 6:00</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span>PM Rene Olsen via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hi.<br><br>To be honest I am not quite sure how to respond to this, without stepping on someones toes. <br>But here it goes.<br><br>You are aware that the DX-Cluster system is also used by casual users, who couldn't care <br>less about bandmaps, contests and what else?<br><br>DX-Clusters have been used just fine for 30+ years, without the use of RBN.<br><br>> A cluster node without skimmer spots is of very little value.<br><br>That is some statement. So what you are saying, is that all DX-Clusters without RBN feed <br>might as well close down? I mean since they are of very little value.<br><br>RBN is probably a good thing for some. But the user can turn it OFF if the user don't want it.<br><br>I don't know how much RBN spots are used on various DX-Clusters. I can only speak for <br>OZ5BBS-7. I have an average of maybe 45-55 users on a daily basis. Not many of them have <br>enabled the RBN feed.<br><br>I doubt that the casual user of a DX-Cluster wants to get a DX spot of some W station spotting <br>itself 930 times during the CQWW contest.<br><br>Its like everything revolves about contesting. Thats not the case.<br><br>Many users who use DX-Clusters, couldn't care less about contests.<br><br>I am not saying that DX-Clusters shouldn't evolve, and we should be stuck at how it was 30 <br>years ago. But, it should be done with the casual DX-Cluster user in mind as well.<br><br>I hope I didn't step on too many toes here :-)<br><br>Vy 73 de Rene / OZ1LQH<br><br><br>On 12 Jan 2025 at 22:51, Björn Ekelund via Dxspider- wrote:<br><br>> A cluster node without skimmer spots is of very little value.<br>> The reverse beacon network produces about 12 million spots on a<br>> big contest weekend. This is consolidated and de-duped into perhaps half a<br>> million.<br>> With this in mind, what makes a few thousand self spots a problem?<br>> <br>> The days of watching the telnet feed scroll by are long gone.<br>> Today computers turn the spot flow into bandmap items and lists of wanted<br>> stations.<br>> The cluster connection is just a data feed. Not a user interface.<br>> <br>> Björn SM7IUN<br>> <br>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 9:41PM Rene Olsen via Dxspider-support <<br>> <a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> <br>> > Hi.<br>> ><br>> > Does this mean that we can get selfspots every 3 minutes from 5000+ users<br>> > or whatever?<br>> ><br>> > If thats the case it is just stupid.<br>> ><br>> > If it is really the case, it makes one wonder if it is even worth running<br>> > a spider node anymore. It<br>> > will totally ruin the entire idea of DX clusters. Which is not to allow<br>> > some OZ station or<br>> > whatever, to send self spot every 3 minutes 24/7.<br>> ><br>> > Just my opinion.<br>> ><br>> > Vy 73 de Rene / OZ1LQH<br>> ><br>> > On 12 Jan 2025 at 18:54, Björn Ekelund via Dxspider- wrote:<br>> ><br>> > > Some of the default settings of DXSpider seem optimized for users staring<br>> > > at the telnet feed.<br>> > ><br>> > > In my scripts/startup I have added<br>> > ><br>> > > set/var $RBN::respottime = 180<br>> > > set/var $Spot::minselfspotqrg 0<br>> > ><br>> > > A cluster node should never suppress a self spot. The minimum self<br>> > spotting<br>> > > periodicity is set<br>> > > by the contest's rules and the cluster should never interfere with this.<br>> > > Typical minimum periods for<br>> > > self spotting in contests are between 3 and 10 minutes.<br>> > ><br>> > > If DXSpider does suppress self spots under certain conditions I would<br>> > like<br>> > > to know how to disable this.<br>> > ><br>> > > Björn SM7IUN<br>> > ><br>> > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 4:35PM Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support <<br>> > > <a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> > ><br>> > > > Now that self spotting is allowed for a trial period in all RSGB HF<br>> > > > contests, I´ve been asked about self-spotting and submitting duplicate<br>> > > > spots by a couple of my users.<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Some time ago I set minselfspotqrg to 0 to allow self spotting but<br>> > what is<br>> > > > the situation regarding duplicates because I understand some logging<br>> > > > software can now self spot every few minutes. I don´t necessarily<br>> > agree<br>> > > > with this but it´s going to happen more and more.<br>> > > ><br>> > > > What´s the period during which the cluster will reject a self spot as a<br>> > > > dupe please and is there a variable that can be tweaked to adjust it?<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Thanks,<br>> > > ><br>> > > > 73 Keith.<br>> > > > _______________________________________________<br>> > > > Dxspider-support mailing list<br>> > > > <a href="mailto:Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a><br>> > > > <a href="https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support" target="_blank">https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support</a><br>> > > ><br>> > ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Dxspider-support mailing list<br>> > <a href="mailto:Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a><br>> > <a href="https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support" target="_blank">https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support</a><br>> ><br>> <br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Dxspider-support mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support" target="_blank">https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>_______________________________________________<br>Dxspider-support mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support" target="_blank">https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>_______________________________________________<br>Dxspider-support mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support" target="_blank">https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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