COMANDI ED INFORMAZIONI SUL CORRETTO USO DEL PACKET-CLUSTER


A cluster system is a DXer's desktop utility. The system has many commands to provide DX information, mail, bulletins/files, and informational databases. You won't need to know all of them to make the network work for you. Following is a introduction to the ones a DXer should know to best benefit from a DX Cluster.

When you logged on you probably went through a registration dialogue asking for your name and QTH. If you were not and plan on returning to utilize the network, it is normally asked that you provide your name, QTH, and latitude/longitude of your station. Here's how:

  1. To enter your name, type SET/NAME [name], e.g. SET/NAME Chuck.
  2. To enter your QTH (or full address/telephone), type SET/QTH [qth] as in this example: SET/QTH Kensington 20895, Montgomery County.
  3. To use the features which give the DX station heading, and sunrise-sunset times, you need to enter your latitude and longitude. Enter for example, SET/LOCATION 39 2 N 77 7 W.
  4. To verify the information entered, type in SHOW/STATION [yourcall], i.e. SHOW/STATION K2YMD. Using some other user's callsign, you can get their station information.

The most important item of the network is the sending and receiving of DX information. To see what DX has been sent, type SHOW/DX. This will list the last 5 DX annoucements. If you're interested in one band, say 10 meters, type SHOW/DX 10. To find spots of a particular call, use: SHOW/DX [callsign], e.g. SHOW DX XZ1N. To send a DX annoucement, the format is: DX [freq] [call] [comment-optional], e.g. DX 14223.4 VU2TTC -or- DX 28012.0 9X5AA QSL via W4FRU

Although examples here are given in UPPER CASE, lower case will work equally well.

Other primary commands are:


DX CLUSTER USER COMMAND SUMMARY

COMMAND FORM/SYNTAX COMMAND DESCRIPTION
ANNOUNCE A msg Announcement to LOCAL users only
ANNOUNCE/nodecall A/call msg Announcement to users on node (call)
ANNOUNCE/FULL A/F msg Announcement to users on ALL NODES
BYE or QUIT B or Q Log off node
DELETE or KILL DE msg# or K # Delete a mail message
DIRECTORY or LIST DI or L List last 5 mail messages
DIRECTORY/ALL DI/A List all active mail messages
DIRECTORY/NEW DI/N List all new mail messages
DIRECTORY/OWN DI/O List mail TO or FROM you
DX DX fq call cmt Announce a DX station
HELP or ?H or ? Brief command summary
READ R Read a mail message TO YOU
READ R msg# Read a specific mail message
READ R/filearea fn Read a file in a specified filearea
REPLY REP Reply to a read message TO YOU
REPLY/DELETE REP/D Reply to a read message & delete
SEND S all or call Send a mail message to (all) (call)
SEND/PRIVATE S/P call Send a PRIVATE mail message
SEND/RR S/RR call Send mail message with return receipt
SET/HERE SET/H Specify you're at the keyboard
SET/LOCATION SET/LO Enter your latitude/longitude
SET/NAME SET/NA Enter your name
SET/NEED SET/NE pfx,pfx Specify your needed countries
SET/NOHERE SET/NOH Specify you're away from keyboard
SET/NONEED SET/NON pfx Delete needed countries
SET/QTH SET/Q Enter your address/city
SHOW/ANNOUNCEMENT SH/AN Show last 5 TO ALL announcements
SHOW/BULLADDR SH/BULLA Show list of TO ALL mail addresses
SHOW/BULLETINS SH/BU Show files in BULLETIN files area
SHOW/CLUSTER SH/CL Show number of nodes & users
SHOW/COMMANDS SH/COM Show available DATABASE commands
SHOW/CONF/NODE SH/C/N Show nodes connected
SHOW/CONFIGURATION SH/C Show nodes and users connected
SHOW/DX SH/D Show last 5 DX announcements
SHOW/DX SH/D band Show last 5 DX spots on (band)
SHOW/DX SH/D call Show last 5 DX spots for (call)
SHOW/DX SH/D frq1 frq2 Show DX spots between Freq1-Freq2
SHOW/FILES SH/FI Show files in GENERAL files area
SHOW/HEADING SH/H prefix Show beam heading to a country
SHOW/LOCATION SH/LOC call Show lat/long/distance for user
SHOW/LOG SH/LOG Show last 5 system log entries
SHOW/LOG SH/LOG call Show system log for user (call)
SHOW/MUF SH/MU prefix Show MUF to country (prefix)
SHOW/NEED SH/NE call Show country needs of user (call)
SHOW/NEED SH/NE prefix Show user calls needing (prefix)
SHOW/NOTICE SH/NO Show (review) local node notice
SHOW/PREFIX SH/PR prefix Show country assigned and zones
SHOW/STATION SH/ST call Show information on user (call)
SHOW/SUN SH/SU prefix Show sunrise/sunset for (prefix)
SHOW/USERS SH/U Show users logged onto local node
SHOW/USERS/FULL SH/U/F Show users logged onto all nodes
SHOW/USER SH/U call Show NAME/QTH of user (call)
SHOW/WWV SH/W Show last 5 WWV announcements
TALK T call Enter talk mode to a user (call)
TALK T call msg Send a 1-line message to user (call)
TYPE TY fn.ext Display a file in BULLETIN area
TYPE/FILES TY/FI fn.ext Display a file in GENERAL area
UPDATE UPD/filename Update a DATABASE file (restricted)
UPLOAD/BULLETIN UPL/BU fn.ext Upload a file to BULLETIN file area
UPLOAD/FILE UPL/FI fn.ext Upload a file to GENERAL file area
WWV WWV sfi=,a=,k= Send Solar Flux as reported on WWV
EXIT A MESSAGE /EXIT Enter this command on a new line

 


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