[aprssig] DXCluster to APRS-RF

[Ron Stordahl]

UI-DX Bridge makes no changes..it just sends the spot exactly as the dx 
cluster would provide it to a radio or telnet user.  A D700 displays the 
spots nicely.  I send them with a path of NULL so they are not repeated, 
and only because our network is so underutilized.

I searched FINDU using the raw cgi and as far as I can tell, none of my 
transmitted spots are reaching FINDU.  I hope they are not, but that is 
the only way I know to search for these.

Ron, N5IN

Steve Dimse wrote:
>
> On May 18, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Ron Stordahl wrote:
>
>> A very good way of putting DX Spots on APRS radio is though the use 
>> of M0CYP's UI-DX Bridge.  His page is at http://welcome.to/uiview
>>
>> With the right set of filter commands you can command AR-Cluster or 
>> DXSpider to deliver to you only spots originated from a specific list 
>> of states.  By spotters state is as fine control as I am aware of.  
>> You can also limit spots by band, so for example to restrict spots to 
>> HF only.
>>
>> UI-DX Bridge allows you to specify the path for your UI packets.  I 
>> only want these locally, so I use a path of NULL, i.e. the actual 
>> call is the 4 characters NULL.  This is not recognized by any area 
>> digipeater thus these packets are never repeated.  I can only get by 
>> with putting DX Packets on 144.39 because the area traffic is so 
>> light up here in NW Minnesota.  You wouldn't want to do this in a 
>> busy area, of course you could use another frequency if that were the 
>> case.
>
> If this is the software I am thinking of, I am not a big fan. One 
> piece of software out there reformats DX spots, generates a lat/lon 
> based on the call, and sends it as an APRS position . The problem is 
> that it results in clusters of position in the wrong spot, especially 
> bad if you happen to live near the arbitrary position chosen (e.g. 
> there is one position for all N4/W4/K4 calls, the near.cgi for these 
> areas becomes worthless). I also field emails from angry hams who do 
> not want their position on APRS.
>
> I have no problem with the retransmission of the dx spot itself, only 
> with reformatting the report with an artifical lat/lon. If this is not 
> the software that does that, nevermind!
>
> Steve K4HG