Re: Topband: FT8 clutter on the DX Cluster

2020-05-13 Thread Jim Brown
On 5/13/2020 7:51 AM, Henk PA5KT via Topband wrote: That is because for some people it can be useful information if they want to make contacts. Yes. Cluster and RBN spots can be quite useful for showing propagation. WSJT-X can be set to automatically post every decode to PSKReporter. Anyone c

Re: Topband: FT8 clutter on the DX Cluster

2020-05-13 Thread kolson
ntly stare at the screen. The cluster can serve both. 73, Kevin K3OX - Original Message - From: Roger Kennedy To: topband@contesting.com Sent: Tue, 12 May 2020 19:58:03 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Topband: FT8 clutter on the DX Cluster Why oh why do some people post on the DX Cluster every F

Re: Topband: FT8 clutter on the DX Cluster

2020-05-13 Thread John Kaufmann via Topband
I use the VE7CC node for spots. You can filter out FT8 spots on VE7CC via the 'set/noft8' command. 73, John W1FV _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector

Re: Topband: FT8 clutter on the DX Cluster

2020-05-13 Thread Joe Subich, W4TV
The solution is to switch to DXLab Suite (DXKeeper for logging, and SpotCollector for cluster/spotting). SpotCollector allows the operator to block spots based on digital mode - e.g., one can block JT9/JT65/FT4/FT4 spots and still display RTTY spots. The mode of a given spot is identified by th

Re: Topband: FT8 clutter on the DX Cluster

2020-05-13 Thread Henk PA5KT via Topband
That is because for some people it can be useful information if they want to make contacts. What is DX or not is up for the listener. There is nothing different then with CW spots. 73 Henk PA5KT Op 13-5-2020 om 01:58 schreef Roger Kennedy: Why oh why do some people post on the DX Cluster eve

Re: Topband: FT8 clutter on the DX Cluster

2020-05-13 Thread Wes
I think it is probably automatic.  Some are even posting every spot twice.  I emailed one guy and asked him why and he was clueless. Mind you, I only occasionally look at spots on the web (DXScape) so mental filtering is just fine for this Luddite. Wes N7WS On 5/13/2020 7:24 AM, pwhel...@ea

Re: Topband: FT8 clutter on the DX Cluster

2020-05-13 Thread pwhelton
tically by their software but again I would think it should be configurable. Regards, Pat - KZ5J -Original Message- From: Topband On Behalf Of Roger Kennedy Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 6:58 PM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: FT8 clutter on the DX Cluster Why oh why do some

Re: Topband: FT8 clutter on the DX Cluster

2020-05-12 Thread Joshua Arritt
The Twitter analogy inspires a thought: suppose it were possible to build algorithmic server-side or client-side filtering for DX cluster data to could parse out spots for which you may not be interested. And vice versa... we can do this kind of selective handling at the display level and the dig

Topband: FT8 clutter on the DX Cluster

2020-05-12 Thread Roger Kennedy
Mike the DX Cluster I use only shows 160m spots anyway ! Roger G3YRO _ From: Michael Walker [mailto:va...@portcredit.net] Because they can. The DX cluster is like bragging on Twitter. :) May I suggest that you run some filters that are related to your cluster login that only allo

Re: Topband: FT8 clutter on the DX Cluster

2020-05-12 Thread Michael Walker
Because they can. The DX cluster is like bragging on Twitter. :) May I suggest that you run some filters that are related to your cluster login that only allow spots for those bands you are interested in. Mike va3mw On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 7:58 PM Roger Kennedy wrote: > > Why oh why do s

Topband: FT8 clutter on the DX Cluster

2020-05-12 Thread Roger Kennedy
Why oh why do some people post on the DX Cluster every FT8 station they have heard? One GM station this evening posted 21 stations . . . none of them were even DX ! I don't even see why you would post ANY on the DX Cluster . . . I thought the whole point of FT8 is that you leave your computer l