[CQ-Contest] RBN Change

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

During CQWW CW, some may be aware that we experienced extreme delays in 
spots from our DXSpider server, up to 35 minutes at times, which 
disrupted relay to "retail" DX clusters.  As a result, we decided to 
switch out the DXSpider server in favor of a second ARC Version 6 
server, so now, when you connect to telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000, 
you will see an ARC V6 server instead.  ARC V6's architecture is such 
that we believe it will becapable of handling future increases in 
traffic without hiccups.

For some time, we have been encouraging end users of RBN spots to go to 
ARC V6 or VE7CC "retail" nodes instead of directly to the RBN's 
servers.  However, some who connect directly have been startled by the 
change. We realize that people are used to the filter syntax used by 
DXSpider and other backward-compatible cluster software, but we believe 
that even in the near term our users are best served by making this 
change in the RBN servers now.

You can find an exhaustive list of cluster servers at 
<http://www.dx.info>, and an excellent summary of AR Cluster V6 
filtering commands at 
<http://ab5k.net/ArcDocsVer6/UserManual/ArcCmdSummary.htm>.

-- 
73, Pete N4ZR, for the RBN team
Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at
http://reversebeacon.net,
blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com.
For spots, please go to your favorite
ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node.