While researching ROS cluster spots arriving at HamSpots.net via the Cluster, I have discovered how the ROS software is auto-spotting to a list of nodes that may be of concern to the Node Sysops.
The following Node addresses are hard-coded in the software. dxc.us6iq.com dxc.ham.hr 9a0dxc.hamradio.hr remo3.renet.ru cluster.sk4bw.net ax25.org sk3w.se sector7.nu sm7gvf.dyndns.org ROS software establishes a connection at startup using your callsign and varies which node it connects to, not always the same node. When a qso is logged a spot is auto generated (there is no option in ROS to turn this off that I could find) and the text of the spot is changed based on another hard-coded list of messages. This is obviously done to give the impression that the spot is sent from a human (unlike the past flooding of the network, same text and same node). ******************************************************************* No where in the ROS FAQ or User Guide is this behaviour documented. ******************************************************************* I ran ROS in RX mode today, after a callsign was decoded, I hit the log button and it sent a spot to the cluster without permission with my name and call thanking the other station for the QSO. A quick review of recent ROS spots shows the same listed nodes being used and similar style comments. What other surprises are hidden in this software? de Laurie, VK3AMA
