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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size: medium">Yeah, it’s correct. It’s the number of spots that have come into my node from each partner, ie the number who made it to me first, before any other node. If I grep -c a log file, searching for “route: DH1TW-2” I get a number that’s similar to the average.</span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size: medium">N2KI only connects to me very occasionally, sometimes only for minutes at a time, every few months so that’s perfectly normal.</span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size: medium">73 Keith.</span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span></div>
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<div name="messageReplySection">On 8 May 2025 at 17:41 +0100, Kin via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk>, wrote:<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>De:</span></b> <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk> <b>En nombre de</b> Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support<br />
<b>Enviado el:</b> jueves, 8 de mayo de 2025 13:00<br />
<b>Para:</b> The DXSpider Support list <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk><br />
<b>CC:</b> Keith, G6NHU <g6nhu@me.com><br />
<b>Asunto:</b> [Dxspider-support] Analysing debug log to show spot routes</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>All,</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br />
<br /></span> <span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>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.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br />
<br /></span> <span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>I keep 31 days of compressed debug files.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br />
<br /></span> <span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>It’s just something I was interested to know.</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br />
<br /></span> <span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>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.</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br />
<br /></span> <span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>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.</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br />
<br /></span> <span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>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.</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br />
<br /></span> <span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>73 Keith.</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br />
<br /></span> <span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Route Spots Daily Average Percentage</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>------ ----- ------------- ----------</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>DH1TW-2 106093 3315 34.91%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>GB7VAX 47342 1479 15.58%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>G1FEF-2 44648 1395 14.69%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>OZ5BBS-7 27732 867 9.13%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>PI4CC 19241 601 6.33%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>WA9PIE-2 12051 377 3.97%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>IW1FRU-74 10996 344 3.62%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>WB3FFV-2 9690 303 3.19%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>N6WS-6 6837 214 2.25%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>R5ACQ-1 4688 146 1.54%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>JA4PXC-11 3969 124 1.31%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>W1DX 3626 113 1.19%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>VK5GR-2 1753 55 0.58%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>G0TRT-9 1491 47 0.49%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>IZ2LSC-99 1469 46 0.48%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>MX0NCA-2 1188 37 0.39%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>IW2NOY-2 914 29 0.30%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>DB0FFS 146 5 0.05%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>N2KI 2 0 0.00%</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>-------- -------- ------------- ----------</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>TOTAL 303876 9496 </span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br />
<br /></span> <span style='font-family:"Menlo",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Number of days: 32</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'></span></p>
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