The big change in the new Aggregator is the addition of a new Combine Skimmers tab, illustrated below:
As usual with Dick's programming, the new tab is self-explanatory. It will take a stream of combined Skimmer spots from multiple Skimmers, coming from wintelnetX or AR Cluster Serve,r and feed them to the "mother ship" under a single callsign, substituting what you fill in here for the information normally provided separately by each instance of CW Skimmer or Skimmer Server.
The other big change is that Aggregator 2.3 now supports RCKskimmer by DL4RCK for digital modes by accepting mode and speed information from it and forwarding the information to the server. From there spots, in a new format are distributed via our two Telnet servers. They look like this:
DX de KM3T-#: 21016.5 SM7YIN CW 09 dB 25 WPM CQ 1233Z
DX de EA4TX-#: 21016.6 SM7YIN CW 22 dB 25 WPM CQ 1233Z
DX de KQ8M-2-#: 21071.4 RA3PS BPSK 08 dB 31 BPS CQ 1233Z
DX de LA5EKA-#: 14028.1 OZ3NP CW 11 dB 22 WPM CQ 1233Z
The format is compatible with all standard DX clusters, since all of the data - from mode through CQing status - is contained in the Comment field size set by the basic spot format.
It is our intention to support any further digital Skimmers that emerge, so long as they deliver their spots by Telnet and their output conforms with that provided by CW Skimmer, Skimmer Server and RCKSkimmer.
We urge all Skimmer operators to update to Aggregator 2.3 as soon as possible.
73, The RBN Development Team
