be broadcast in PC41 protocol packets. This information is Name, QTH, Location
and Homenode. PC41s are only sent for the information that is available.
+=== 8^GET/KEPS^Obtain the latest AMSAT Keplarian Elements from the web
+There are various ways that one can obtain the AMSAT keps. Traditionally the
+regular method was to get on the mailing list and then arrange for the email
+to be piped into convkeps.pl and arrange from the crontab to run LOAD/KEPS.
+For various reasons, it was quite easy for one to be silently dropped
+from this mailing list.
+
+With the advent of asynchronous (web) connections in DXSpider it is now
+possible to use this command to get the latest keps direct from the
+AMSAT web site. One can do this from the command line or one can add a line
+in the local DXSpider crontab file to do periodically (say once a week).
+
+This command will clear out the existing keps and then run LOAD/KEPS
+for you (but only) after a successful download from the AMSAT website.
+
=== 0^HELP^The HELP Command
HELP is available for a number of commands. The syntax is:-
This command shows information on all the active connections known to
the node. This command gives slightly more information than WHO.
-=== 0^SHOW/CONTEST <year and month>^Show all the contests for a month
+=== 0^SHOW/CONTEST [<year>] [<month>]^Show all the contests for a month
Show all known contests which are maintained at http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/
for a particular month or year. The format is reasonably flexible.
For example:-
- SH/CONTEST sep2003
- SH/CONTEST 03 march
+ SH/CONTEST
+ SH/CONTEST mar
+ SH/CONTEST mar 13
+ SH/CONTEST 13 march
+
+If there is no month/year then the current month's contests are shown.
+
+Note that it expects ENGLISH (jan/feb/mar/apr/may/jun/jul/aug/sep/oct/nov/dec)
+month names.
=== 0^SHOW/DATE [<prefix>|<callsign>]^Show the local time
This is very nearly the same as SHOW/TIME, the only difference the format
by_state <list> - look for spots spotted by people in the US state
specified.
+
+ origin - the node from which this spot originated (must be an
+ exact callsign with SSID e.g. gb7tlh-4)
+
+ ip - the IP address of the spotter (either in IPV4 or IPV6)
+ format. These addresses can be partial.
e.g.
SH/DX state in,oh
SH/DX by_state in,oh
SH/DX hb2008g exact
+ SH/DX origin gb7tlh-4
+ SH/DX ip 82.65.128.4 (or SH/DX ip 2a00:1450:4009:800::200e)
=== 0^SHOW/DXCC <prefix>^Interrogate the spot database by country
This command takes the <prefix> (which can be a full or partial