On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 15:28 -0500, Barry Bourgond wrote: > Is there a means to filter out who gives DX spots? For instance, If I don't > want to see any spots from anyone except the US, can I filter this out?
Sure, absolutely the best place to do this is on the cluster what software is your chosen cluster using? My cluster EI7MRE ei7mre.ath.cx 7300 is running dxspider For dxpsider nodes the filtering manual is here http://www.dxcluster.org/main/filtering_en.html One way to achieve what you wish you would filter by zones you can see a zone map here http://www4.plala.or.jp/nomrax/CQ/ watch out for filtering by state, the states database is not 100% up to date and you will miss many spots this way log into the cluster and issue the following command reject/spots not by_zone 3,4,5 perhaps you would like to see spots by VE hams too reject/spots not by_zone 3,4,5,2,1 sh/filt will show your current filter setup you can also do combined filters and even chain filters here is one of mine EI6IZ-13 : spots filter1 reject on 6m and not (by_zone 14 or call_zone 14) filter2 reject on hf and not (by_zone 14,15,16,20 or call_zone 14,15,16,20) filter3 reject call_dxcc 666 filter4 reject on 2m,uhf on 6m only spots by or for EU stations on HF we use a wider area 666 is invalid callsigns I don't do 2m or UHF Another useful trick is to log in with different ssids as each ssid can have it's own personalized settings ei6iz-13 has a different filter set than ei6iz-12 for example, yet if either call spots it gets sent over the cluster network as being spotted by ei6iz (the ssid gets dropped) If you get stuck just ask your local cluster sysop for help, we all prefer for users to filter on the cluster as it keeps the unnecessary traffic down, even though this is mainly an issue for packet users in these broadband times 73 Brendan EI6IZ
