From: Dirk Koopman Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 15:11:54 +0000 (+0100) Subject: update RBN.mojo X-Git-Url: http://dxcluster.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a6a9fc181ae90c318bf47a84c8bb9695ec7a39c6;p=spider.git update RBN.mojo --- diff --git a/RBN.mojo b/RBN.mojo index 1195f6db..e58a6001 100644 --- a/RBN.mojo +++ b/RBN.mojo @@ -74,22 +74,27 @@ callsign: * I normalise the frequency and cache up to 9 copies from different spots. In order to do this I have to wait a few (comfigurable) seconds for the client to collect a reasonable number of copies. More copies -may come in after 9 copies have been. Once I have enough copies to be -sure that the callsign is at least agreeed upon by more than one -skimmer, or the wait timer goes off, I emit a spot. An example of -which is shown above in the spot sent to G1TST. By this means I can -reduce the number of spots sent to a node user by up to a factor of 10 -for CW etc spots and about 8 for FTx spots. +may come in after 9 copies have been received. Once I have enough +copies to be sure that the callsign is at least agreeed upon by more +than one skimmer, or the wait timer goes off, I emit a spot. By this +means I can reduce the number of spots sent to a node user by up to a +factor of 10 for CW etc spots and about 8 for FTx spots. + +For example, from the trace above, all the RW1M RBN spots become just +one line: + +DX de F8DGY-#: 7018.3 RW1M CW 23dB Q:9* Z:20 16 2259Z 14 * No RBN spots can leak out of the node to the general cluster. Each node that wants to use the RBN *must* establish their own connections to the RBN. * Currently no RBN spots are stored. This may well change but how and - where these spots are stored is not yet decided. Only "new" spots - will be stored (if they are). + where these spots are stored is not yet decided. Only "DXSpider + curated" spots (like the example above) will be stored (if/when they + are). Sh/dx will be suitably modified if storage happens. -* There are some things that need to be said: +* There are some things that need to be explained: a) The input format from the RBN is not the same as format emitted by the cluster node. This is part of the unhelpfulness to mixing a raw @@ -104,6 +109,15 @@ some time and he is still calling CQ after some time (configurable, but currently 60 minutes) and gaps for QSOs or tea breaks are ignored, then a '+' character will be added. +If the "Qualitee" Q:1 is seen on a CW spot, then only one skimmer has +seen that spot and the callsign *could* be wrong, but frequently, if +it is wrong, it is more obvious than the example below. But if Q is +Q:2 and above, then the callsign is much more likely to be correct. + +DX de DJ9IE-#: 14034.9 UN7BBD CW 4dB Q:5*+ 17 1444Z 14 +DX de OL7M-#: 14037.9 UA6LQ CW 13dB Q:7 16 1448Z 15 +DX de LZ3CB-#: 28050.2 DL4HRM CW 7dB Q:1 14 1448Z 20 + c) I ditch the WPM and the 'CQ' as not being hugely relevant. d) If there is a Z:nn[,mm...] is there it means that this call was also heard @@ -113,10 +127,26 @@ will notice the spot zone and skimmer call zone around the time. This can be activated with a 'set/dxcq' command. This is completely optional. -e) I shorten the skimmer callsign to 6 characters, before (re-)adding -'-#' on the end to minimise the movement rightwards as in the incoming -spot from KO7SS-7-# just two lines below G1TST. There are some very -strange skimmer callsigns. +DX de LZ4UX-#: 14015.5 ON7TQ CW 6dB Q:9 Z:5,14,15,40 14 0646Z 20 +DX de VE7CC-#: 3573.0 N8ADO FT8 -14dB Q:4 Z:4,5 4 0647Z 3 +DX de DM7EE-#: 14027.5 R1AC CW 9dB Q:9* Z:5,15,17,20 16 0643Z 14 +DX de WE9V-#: 7074.0 EA7ALL FT8 -9dB Q:2+ Z:5 14 0641Z 4 + +e) I shorten the skimmer callsign to 6 characters - having first +chopped off any SSIDs, spurious /xxx strings from the end leaving just +the base callsign, before (re-)adding '-#' on the end. This is done to +minimise the movement rightwards as in the incoming spot from +KO7SS-7-# below. There are some very strange skimmer callsigns with +all sorts of spurious endings, all of which I attempt to reduce to the +base callsign. Some skimmer base callsigns still might be shortened +for display purposes. Things like '3V/K5WEM' won't fit in six +characters but the whole base callsign is used for zone info, +internally, but only the first 6 characters are displayed in any +spot. See KO7SS-7-# below: + +05Jul2020@22:59:39 (chan) <- I SK0MMR DX de HB9JCB-#: 3516.9 RA1AFT CW 9 dB 26 WPM CQ 2259Z +05Jul2020@22:59:39 (chan) <- I SK0MMR DX de KO7SS-7-#: 14057.6 K7GT CW 6 dB 21 WPM CQ 2259Z +05Jul2020@22:59:39 (chan) <- I SK0MMR DX de K9LC-#: 28169.9 VA3XCD/B CW 9 dB 10 WPM BEACON 2259Z f) I have a filter set (accept/spot by_zone 14 and not zone 14 or zone 14 and not by_zone 14) which will give me the first spot that either