2.5 KiB
2.5 KiB
DXPager
This script is a bot that sends you DAPNET messages if a DX station is spotted whose entity you have not worked/confirmed before. To achieve this, it
- parses the output of a specific dx cluster server
- downloads your LotW QSL file
- determines the DX station's country
- determines the DX station's continent
- determines if the DX station uses LotW
- determines if the DX station's country has been confirmed via LotW
- and finally - if it's a new DXCC - sends the information to your dapnet pager
Limitations
The following limitations are present:
- read-only: you can't send commands to the dx cluster server via this tool
- no filters: you need to configure your filter on the server
Installation
DXPager needs Python 3 and the following libraries:
- requests
Furthermore, you need an account at LotW and hampager.de
Before installing DXPager, please make sure that pip, setuptools and wheel are installed and up-to-date:
# python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
Finally, install ColorSpot with pip:
# python3 -m pip install dxpager
Updating
To update dxpager, execute the following command:
# python3 -m pip install --upgrade dxpager
Usage
- execute the application with "dxpager"
- DXPager creates a default config file and states its location (e.g. ~/.config/dxpager/dxpager.ini)
- adapt ~/.config/dxpager/dxpager.ini to your needs. Important setting are:
- cluster/host and cluster/port: Change this if you want to use another cluster server
- cluster/user: Enter here your call sign
- lotw/user: Enter here your lotw user name (your call sign). Leave at "N0CALL" to disable this feature.
- lotw/password: Enter here your lotw password
- lotw/mode: Enter here the mode you would like to filter the QSL download from LotW
- dapnet_user: Enter here the hampager.de user name (your call sign)
- dapnet_pass: Enter here your hampager.de password
- dapnet_callsigns: Enter here the call sign of the receiver
- dapnet_txgroup: Adapt the tx group to your region
- execute the application again with "dxpager"
- the software now tries to download the following files and stores them into the configuration directory:
License
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