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Configuring your DXSpider node receive skimmer spots from the RBN (Reverse Beacon Network) is very straight forward, here is bare bones howto:
Configuring your DXSpider node receive skimmer spots from the RBN (Reverse Beacon Network) is very straight forward, here is a bare bones howto:


Create two RBN users:
Create two RBN users:


  set/rbn rbn-cw rbn-ft8
  set/rbn rbncw rbnft


Create two connect scripts:
Create two connect scripts:


  /spider/connect/rbn-cw
  /spider/connect/rbncw


which contains:
which contains:
timeout 15
  connect telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net 7000
  connect telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net 7000
  'call:' '<YOUR-CALL-SIGN>'
  'call:' '<YOUR-CALL-SIGN>'
client rbn skimmer


and:
and:
  /spider/connect/rbn-ft8
  /spider/connect/rbnft


which contains:
which contains:
timeout 15
  connect telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net 7001
  connect telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net 7001
  'call:' '<YOUR-CALL-SIGN>'
  'call:' '<YOUR-CALL-SIGN>'
client rbn skimmer


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


You can also startup the connections manually in the normal way:
You can also startup the connections manually in the normal way:
  connect rbn-cw
  connect rbncw
  connect rbn-ft8
  connect rbnft


and of course drop the connections:
and of course drop the connections:
  disconnect rbn-cw
  disconnect rbncw
  disconnect rbn-ft8
  disconnect rbnft


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 fires 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.

Revision as of 16:22, 25 July 2026

Configuring your DXSpider node receive skimmer spots from the RBN (Reverse Beacon Network) is very straight forward, here is a bare bones howto:

Create two RBN users: 

set/rbn rbncw rbnft

Create two connect scripts: 

/spider/connect/rbncw

which contains: 

timeout 15
connect telnet telnet.reversebeacon.net 7000
'call:' '<YOUR-CALL-SIGN>'

and: 

/spider/connect/rbnft

which contains: 

timeout 15
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('rbncw') unless connected('rbncw')
* * * * * start_connect('rbnft') unless connected('rbnft')

You can also startup the connections manually in the normal way: 

connect rbncw
connect rbnft

and of course drop the connections: 

disconnect rbncw
disconnect rbnft

Although bear in mind if you added the crontab entries, disconnecting them will only work until the crontab fires 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.

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