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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:
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.

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.