How to connect DXSpider to RBN

Dxcadmin — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:06:03 GMT

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	Create two RBN users:		Create two RBN users:

	set/rbn ~~sk0mmr sk1mmr~~		set/rbn rbn-cw rbn-ft8

	Create two connect scripts:		Create two connect scripts:

	/spider/connect/~~sk0mmr~~		/spider/connect/rbn-cw

	which contains:		which contains:
	connect telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net 7000		connect telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net 7000
	'call:' '~~sk0mmr~~'		'call:' '<YOUR-CALL-SIGN>'

	and:		and:
	/spider/connect/~~sk1mmr~~		/spider/connect/rbn-ft8

	which contains:		which contains:
	connect telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net 7001		connect telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net 7001
	'call:' '~~sk1mmr~~'		'call:' '<YOUR-CALL-SIGN>'

	Then in your crontab file:		Then in your crontab file:
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	Add these two lines:		Add these two lines:
	* * * * * start_connect('~~sk0mmr~~') unless connected('~~sk0mmr~~')		* * * * * start_connect('rbn-cw') unless connected('rbn-cw')
	* * * * * start_connect('~~sk1mmr~~') unless connected('~~sk1mmr~~')		* * * * * start_connect('rbn-ft8') unless connected('rbn-ft8')

	You can also startup the connections manually in the normal way:		You can also startup the connections manually in the normal way:
	connect ~~sk0mmr~~		connect rbn-cw
	connect ~~sk1mmr~~		connect rbn-ft8

	and of course drop the connections:		and of course drop the connections:
	disconnect ~~sk0mmr~~		disconnect rbn-cw
	disconnect ~~sk1mmr~~		disconnect rbn-ft8

	Although bear in mind if you added the crontab entries, disconnecting them will only work until the crontab fire the next connect command, so you would need to remove or comment out the two lines in the crontab file to permanently disconnect.		Although bear in mind if you added the crontab entries, disconnecting them will only work until the crontab fire the next connect command, so you would need to remove or comment out the two lines in the crontab file to permanently disconnect.

	More details can be found on the [[RBN.mojo\| RBN Mojo]] page.		More details can be found on the [[RBN.mojo\| RBN Mojo]] page.

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