[ct-user] Getting DX spots from Internet / Telnet?

[David Robbins]

the reason to run telnet on the isp's machine from the shell account is that you
start it from the cluster chat window in ct and then the spots come in just like
from a tnc and can be sorted and used directly by the program.  doing it from
the windows telnet program lets you watch them, but won't check them against
your log or let you grab them for radio controlled point and shoot.  if you have
a separate machine on the internet running windows you can download my
wintelnetx program and use that to connect to the internet clusters and feed the
spots out to ct or any other logging program via a serial port or local ethernet
network.

Tony wrote:
> 
> Hi Jim & the group,
> 
>    I tried the telnet part of W4AN's article. I was able to run telnet on
> my PC ("telnet cluster.akorn.net" as a run command) and connect directly to
> the packet cluster. You should not need to run telnet on one of your ISP's
> machines (shell account). The DX spot data coming thru the port is the same
> as if you were running telnet on the ISP's machine. Am I missing something
> here???
>    I'll try the rest of the experiment soon.
> 
> Meanwhile, other thoughts?
> 
> 73, Tony
> At 10:28 AM 2/9/00 -0500, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> >
> >Someone asked me a question recently about using Telnet to get packet spots
> >into CT and it's probably worthy of an application note on the www.k1ea.com
> >web site.
> >
> >I have heard of a solution using DX-Telnet, anyone care to write up an
> >application note that can be uploaded to www.k1ea.com?  Plain text is just
> >fine.
> >
> >Here is a pointer to another article that Bill W4AN wrote:
> >
> >http://www.contesting.com/_cq-contest/199711/0060.html
> 
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