[Elecraft] 6 meter openings and how to catch them

[Dave Cole (NK7Z)]

Here is a quick and dirty page with the script in it.

https://www.nk7z.net/cluster-scraper-for-dx-opening/

It is well commented, but remember it is a work in progress, I am in the 
process of switching from Zones, to Grids, as the trigger area, so a lot 
of extra code is in it that appears to not do much...

Have fun.  If you decide to take on the change over to maidenhead grids 
let me know, I'll wait, and just get a copy of your version...  If you 
improve it, please let me have a copy of the improved code...  I will 
add a CC release to this version later this week.  Our local club 
meeting is this evening in about an hour, so I need to run...

It is NOT plug and play, you will need to look at the subroutine named 
"cluster login", and change to your favorite cluster.  There are a lot 
of directory dependent things in it as well...

It will not take any more resources that a spotting program, while 
connected to a cluster, but it will auto log back in forever, so you may 
want to break that feature before you use it.

It also has my local IP address for my machine that runs the cluster. 
Feel free to use:

nk7z-cluster.ddns.net:7373

as the cluster to test with...  That is also a freely available cluster 
for anyone to use...  It is a reasonably well connected cluster...

Everything is globally declared, so there is a lot of space saving that 
could happen... I want to get it running before I dress it up...

73s and thanks,
Dave
NK7Z
https://www.nk7z.net

On 05/04/2018 02:03 PM, Robert Felmey wrote:
> Dave,
> 
> Is that script available somewhere on your website?
> 
> Rob
> KC2VIC
> 
> On Fri, May 4, 2018, 4:39 PM Dave Cole (NK7Z) <dave at nk7z.net 
> <mailto:dave at nk7z.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Wayne,
> 
>     I have a script Perl that scrapes my DX cluster, (will work with any DX
>     cluster), then announces when, and what bands are open, via an MP3 file
>     played on my home PC, for each band, based on how many spots from
>     zone 3
>     are sent from DX stations to the cluster nets...  Works every time on 6
>     meter openings...
> 
>     73s and thanks,
>     Dave
>     NK7Z
>     https://www.nk7z.net
> 
>     On 05/04/2018 10:53 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
>      > For most of the year 6 meters seems catatonic, at least to those
>     of us with mortal-scale antennas. But then there are times, like
>     right now, where a magic mirror appears in the sky, capriciously
>     reflecting signals all other place. It’s called “sporadic-E.”
>      >
>      > When the magic is happening, even those with modest antennas,
>     tuned for 6 meters or not, can get in on the fun. What I do is park
>     my K3S or KX3 at 50.125 USB with the squelch turned on, in case
>     someone starts calling CQ above the noise.
>      >
>      > With both rigs, you can turn on “CW-in-SSB” mode in the CW WGHT
>     menu entry, allowing you to either use SSB or CW as required. (A lot
>     of cross-mode happens on this band since QSB--fading--can come up
>     without warning, leading some ops to switch from SSB to CW to finish
>     a QSO.)
>      >
>      > A great tool that has been mentioned here before is dxmaps.com
>     <http://dxmaps.com>, which gives you a snapshot of activity on any
>     band of your choice, or all bands, or certain subsets. You can sign
>     up to get alerts emailed to you when a band of interest gets
>     interesting.
>      >
>      > I’ve had multiple alerts each of the past several days -- ’tis
>     the season.
>      >
>      > 73,
>      > Wayne
>      > N6KR
>      >
>      >
>      >
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