[RTTY] Using the Digital Skimmer Cluster System

[Walter Dallmeier]

Hello,

I get a lot of questions how to suppress "PSK"-spots and "DE"-spots from Digital-Skimmers via the Digital Cluster System for RTTY-contests.

To suppress "PSK"-spots and "DE"-spots from the DCS use the commands:
"set/PSK no"          /stop PSK-spots
"set/DE no"            /stop DE-spots (station detected they not CQing)

Other useful commands:
"sh/filter"           /show your current filter setup
"set/all"             /delete all filters
"help"               /show all possible commands

The DCS address is:    dl4rck.ham-radio-op.net      Port:  8000

Some basics: The DCS (Digital Cluster System) is the common system for all Digital-Skimmers around the world. Each Digital-Skimmer send their receiving results to this system. This are mostly RTTY, PSK31, PSK63 calls in the air in real time. Each digital spots from the world wide cluster systems entered by hand from anybody will be spread out too.
This means, only Digital-Skimmer and manual entered digital spots are distributed.
It can be reached with each standard DX-Cluster software program like PuTTY. Nearly every contest software has a DX-cluster module implemented and can be used too.

See you in the upcoming DL-DX RTTY Contest next weekend.

vy 73 de Walter, DL4RCK