[Skimmertalk] Non-internet access to the RBN

[Matt Murphy]

Matt, you could set up an automated beacon to send QST messages every 10
minutes with an aggregation of the spot data for your call, and to simply
behave as a beacon if no spots had been received in the last 10 minutes.








On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Matt Smith <kg7vfy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the responses. Aside from the software integration component
> I wish to keep this an amateur radio-only solution so sat phone is
> cheating! I’ll get the telnet parsing worked out first then re-read part 97
> to understand what I’m allowed to do telecommand, auxiliary, beacon-wise.
> Whatever the exact solution I’ll have some computer-connected radio at home
> to watch for my spots and transmit them back out so I can receive at my
> remote location.
>
> Thanks again for the input. I’ll report back when I have proof of concept
> worked out.
>
> 73, Matt, AF7TI
>
> > On Aug 29, 2016, at 1:55 PM, Bob Wilson, N6TV <n6tv at arrl.net> wrote:
> >
> > See https://shop.outfittersatellite.com/rentals.htm <https://shop.
> outfittersatellite.com/rentals.htm> for one way to get remote Internet
> access.  TELNET is good enough to check your spots at 2400 baud.
> >
> > 73,
> > Bob, N6TV
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 5:10 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr at contesting.com
> <mailto:n4zr at contesting.com>> wrote:
> > Hi Matt - I'm copying the rest of the RBN teamso they can add comments
> if they wish, but I doubt this is practical. The biggest hurdle would be
> the need for a network of receivers positioned to hear the CW queries you
> propose, each with Internet connections to the server, as well as the
> ability to transmit the results of the queries automatically.
> >
> > 73, Pete N4ZR
> > Download the new N1MM Logger+ at
> > <http://N1MM.hamdocs.com <http://n1mm.hamdocs.com/>>. Check
> > out the Reverse Beacon Network at
> > <http://reversebeacon.net <http://reversebeacon.net/>>, now
> > spotting RTTY activity worldwide.
> > For spots, please use your favorite
> > "retail" DX cluster.
> >
> > On 8/28/2016 9:48 PM, Matt Smith - AF7TI wrote:
> > Hi RBN:
> >
> > Curious to know if anyone's worked out possible designs for accessing
> the RBN
> > without internet access. I enjoy operating portable primarily for
> probation studies
> > with my radio in repeat/Beacon mode and often wind up some place in the
> > wilderness without internet access. Yes I can call CQ and talk to people
> but I'd love
> > to have the ability to see my spots even when I don't have internet
> access. Out of
> > band access to the RBN data would be fantastic for my use case.
> >   One possibility I was thinking about today is some sort of CW API
> gateway that
> > would take a callsign and other parameters as an argument, do a DB
> lookup, and
> > respond back in CW to the caller. So if I found myself wanting to send
> out my
> > callsign and check all of my spots without internet access I could tune
> in some
> > (regional) frequency (range), send some CW string including my callsign
> and other
> > required parameters, the CW gateway listening on this frequency (range)
> would
> > take the parameters, query the DB and respond back to the calling
> frequency with
> > the query results in CW.
> >
> > Thanks for the Reverse Beacon Network. I have tons of fun and learning
> using it
> > and hope to contribute to it in some useful way.
> >
> > 73,
> > Matt
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