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Configuring your DXSpider node receive skimmer spots from the RBN (Reverse Beacon Network) is very straight forward: | Configuring your DXSpider node receive skimmer spots from the RBN (Reverse Beacon Network) is very straight forward, here is bare bones howto: | ||
Create two RBN users: | |||
set/rbn rbn-cw rbn-ft8 | |||
Create two connect scripts: | Create two connect scripts: | ||
/spider/connect/ | /spider/connect/rbn-cw | ||
which contains: | which contains: | ||
connect telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net 7000 | connect telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net 7000 | ||
'call:' ' | 'call:' '<YOUR-CALL-SIGN>' | ||
and: | and: | ||
/spider/connect/ | /spider/connect/rbn-ft8 | ||
which contains: | which contains: | ||
connect telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net 7001 | connect telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net 7001 | ||
'call:' ' | 'call:' '<YOUR-CALL-SIGN>' | ||
Then in your crontab file: | |||
/spider/local_cmd/crontab | /spider/local_cmd/crontab | ||
Add these two lines: | Add these two lines: | ||
* * * * * start_connect(' | * * * * * start_connect('rbn-cw') unless connected('rbn-cw') | ||
* * * * * start_connect(' | * * * * * start_connect('rbn-ft8') unless connected('rbn-ft8') | ||
You can also startup the connections manually in the normal way: | |||
connect rbn-cw | |||
connect rbn-ft8 | |||
and of course drop the connections: | |||
disconnect rbn-cw | |||
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. | |||
More details can be found on the [[RBN.mojo| RBN Mojo]] page. | |||
Latest revision as of 17:06, 12 June 2026
Configuring your DXSpider node receive skimmer spots from the RBN (Reverse Beacon Network) is very straight forward, here is bare bones howto:
Create two RBN users:
set/rbn rbn-cw rbn-ft8
Create two connect scripts:
/spider/connect/rbn-cw
which contains:
connect telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net 7000 'call:' '<YOUR-CALL-SIGN>'
and:
/spider/connect/rbn-ft8
which contains:
connect telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net 7001 'call:' '<YOUR-CALL-SIGN>'
Then in your crontab file:
/spider/local_cmd/crontab
Add these two lines:
* * * * * start_connect('rbn-cw') unless connected('rbn-cw')
* * * * * start_connect('rbn-ft8') unless connected('rbn-ft8')
You can also startup the connections manually in the normal way:
connect rbn-cw connect rbn-ft8
and of course drop the connections:
disconnect rbn-cw 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.
More details can be found on the RBN Mojo page.