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The RigPi spots shows DX spots provided by one of a large number of DX Cluster Telnet sites. The site you wish to use is selected in SETTINGS>Spots. See the Settings Spots window topic for details. Click a spot to tune instantly to the frequency and operating mode reported for that spot.  The selected spot background is red.  Double-click a spot to queue that spot.  Queued spots serve as placeholders and the rig remains tuned to the red spot.  To convert a yellow spot to a red spot, click the yellow spot.

 

A band map centered on the Tuner frequency shows all nearby spots. Click a spot to tune to the reported frequency and mode for that spot.  The spot in the spot list has a red background.

 

1: Spot Source

 

•RigPi is connected to this Telnet spot source.

 

2: Connect/Disconnect/Delete

 

•Connect to specified Telnet site, or disconnect.  Select the spot server you want to use in SETTINGS->Spots.  If the connection is successful after clicking Connect, a dialog confirms that the connect is good. If the connection fails, the dialog tells you so and the button turns red.  Failure to connect can be due to the spot server not being active.  Try another server.

•Delete All removes all spots.  You must be connected to a spot server for this to work.

 

3: Spot Filter and Spot Color

 

•Spots are filtered by the Band and Mode options selected in the Filter (funnel icon) drop-down list.

•Spots are colored depending on the color rule selected in the Color (paintbrush icon) drop-down list.

 

4: Color Rule

 

•Spots are colored depending on the color rule selected in the Color (paintbrush icon) drop-down list.

•Call fields are colored by call rules.

•Entity fields are colored by entity rules.

 

 

5: Spot Filter

 

•Spots are filter based on Band and Mode by selections in this drop-down list.

 

 

6: Frequency

 

•Current operating frequency

 

7: Band Map

 

•Spots near operating frequency

 

8: Spots

 

•Click spot to tune to spot frequency and mode.

 

9: Spot List

 

•Spots from current DX Cluster Telnet site.

•Sort the list by clicking the header, again to show the opposite order.

•With the mouse pointer over a spot row the Filter, number of minutes since spotted, and spotter are displayed in a tool tip.

•RigPi checks the reported mode against the modes the current radio supports.  For example, the Hamlib Dummy radio does not support USB-D, so USB is used instead.  If the spot is on a normal FT-8 frequency or 'FT8' is found in the note, USB-D is used for the  mode unless the radio doesn't support USB-D.

 

10: Selected Spot

 

•Click spot to tune to spot frequency and mode.

 

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