[Dx4win] Leaving Telnet connected 24/7

[Kelly Johnson]

Actually, seeing something that was on 8 hours ago is sometimes
useful, especially for a DXpedition because it gives you an idea of
what bands they are working at what times of day and what times of day
people in your part of the world are hearing them.  The bigger problem
with this approach is that I don't know if you can filter the DX
Summit spots based upon the geographic location of the person posting
the spot.  I typically use a telnet cluster that filters out
everything except spots made by U.S. stations on the West Coast (where
I live).  I would really want to load in only spots from West Coast
stations.  Would that be possible?



On 12/20/07, David, K2DBK <k2dbk at arrl.net> wrote:
> One of the options that comes with the default list of cluster locations
> is the ability to pull down spots from DX Summit. You could pull down
> 1000 spots (or even more, I think) and see if that helps.
>
> Of course, it's not going to help much to find something rare that went
> off the air 8 hours ago, but it would let you know that they might be
> around.
>
>
> Kelly Johnson wrote:
> > I often leave DX4WIN running and Telnet connected for DX spots 24/7.
> > When I am home, I can check the window every time I walk by the shack
> > to see if I see any Red or Yellow spots.  If I'm not home, the telnet
> > window collects all the spots so that when I return I know what
> > activity has occurred while I was gone and in some cases the DX
> > stations are still there when I return.
> >
> > Question - I'd love to avoid leaving my computer running 24/7 if
> > possible.  Are there any internet based services out there that can
> > collect the spots while my computer is offline and allow me to fill my
> > DX4WIN spot window from those saved spots when I bring my computer
> > back online?
> >
>
> --
> 73,
>        David, K2DBK
>        http://k2dbk.com
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