+18Nov21=======================================================================
+1. Add a dx spot cache which will store 2 days worth (configurable) of spots.
+ This is then used by the vast majority of simple sh/dx queries without
+ using a sub process. A simple sh/dx is any sh/dx that does not have an
+ "expression" such as "sh/dx g1tlh". So "sh/dx", "sh/dx 200", "sh/mydx" will
+ always run in the main program via the cache. Certain client programs (no
+ names, no pack drill) will notice the difference immediately. It's also a
+ bit snappier.
+2. set/badspotter or set/badnode will work for RBN input.
+3. RBN input with invalid QRGs will be dropped with a nice friendly message
+ rather than a scary exception message about multiplication thrown by one
+ of the libraries that I use.
+4. Added CTY-3126 prefixes.
+5. Silently ignore self spotting below 1240000Khz (change
+ $Spot::minselfspot to 0 to disable or some other freq in Khz). NOTE this
+ will appear as a spot to the spotter's feed, but will not be passed on.
+15Jul21=======================================================================
+1. Fix long standing bug in crontabs that commands with " rather than ' around
+ strings could cause those commands not to work.
+2. Add CTY 3117 prefixes.
+15Mar21=======================================================================
+1. Fix DXUtil::localdata so that it does actually prefer the latest version
+ of a file regardless of whether it is in /spider/data or /spider/localdata.
+2. Add CTY-3105 prefixes.
+05Mar21=======================================================================
+1. Fix DXCron::spawn_cmd so that more than one spawn_cmd can be active at a
+ time. This affects many nodes where lots of regular spawn_cmds happen at
+ a time and this prevented crucial things like 'start_connect' from working!
+2. Sort user lockout issues to cope with all likely scenarios - including
+ "phantom" SSID working.
+3. Fix "close_gracefully" error messages which are useless, but benign. These
+ happen (mainly) when outgoing connects timeout.
+24Feb21=======================================================================
+1. modify RBN timing arrangements
+
+ There are two new twiddle pots:
+
+ $limbotime (default 5*60 secs) which allows potential spots to
+ hang around longer to allow $minqual *different* skimmers to spot
+ them. At which point they are emitted. This is to catch the "slow
+ burning" spots where a call is spotted by different skimmers but
+ separated in time by more than $dwelltime - in fact maybe by
+ minutes.
+
+ $maxqual (default 9 skimmers) which short circuits the normal
+ hard maximum $quality (9 skimmer spots) and $dwelltime (10secs)
+ to allow a spot that has $maxqual *different* skimmers (usually
+ as the result of a burst from the RBN) to defeat $dwelltime and
+ be emitted the moment that condition is satisfied. There maybe
+ a better name for this.
+21Feb21=======================================================================
+1. add data section on 160m in bands.pl.
+07Sep20=======================================================================
+1, Change interface to watchdbg & grepdbg slightly so that multiple search
+ regexes are ANDed rather than ORed together. ORing is easily achieved
+ already by the usual regex pattern 'PATT..|PATT..|..' whereas ANDing could
+ not be done as easily without resorting lots of 'PATT.*PATH' things which
+ would not necessarily get what was wanted.
+2. Make sure that the pc92 C record only contains nodes and users and not
+ other extranoeus things like skimmers...
+15Aug20=======================================================================
+1. Simplify the skimmer scoring mechanism.
+13Aug20=======================================================================
+1. Improve the (displayed) RBN frequency weighting the skimmers' frequencies
+ w.r.t majority view on each spot. Any skimmer that disagrees with a
+ gets docked a 'point' from their 'good' score (if any) and have a 'point'
+ added to their 'bad' score. This score is then taked into account during
+ the 'choosing the real frequency' process. If a skimmer agrees with the
+ majority the process is reversed. To see this in action: set/deb rbnskim
+06Aug20=======================================================================
+1, Add CTY-3013 Prefixes
+2. Make RBN more efficient. Start the process of skimmer node performance
+ caching. Add minimum quality allowed (at 2), which will be overrideable.
+ The format of the rbn_cache has changed and so a full restart will occur.
+3. Collect channel input/output stats. New command: show/data_stats to show
+ them.
+4. Add local::lib qw{/spider/perl5lib} to store cpanm loaded modules just for
+ DXSpider. This is done so that updates needed by future changes can be done
+ as the sysop user and doesn't have to be done as root. This paves the way
+ for UPDATE.pl which will pull down new modules that it needs automatically.
+ When it's written, which will be soon.
+29Jul20=======================================================================
+1. Add show/rbn command that allows one to see who is online and configured
+ for RBN. See help sh/rbn for details.
+2. Fixed issue with set/ve7cc mode adding unwanted newlines to output.
+3. Attempted to make the QRG normalisation more "intelligent". This would be
+ sooooooooo much easier if skimmers were calibrated more accurately.
+4. Added CTY-3012 prefixes.
23Jul20=======================================================================
1. fix Filtering so that it does less of what it was doing badly, thus
the perl interpreter to do more of the work. Which means you *should* be
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