How to connect DXSpider to RBN

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.