What is Cluster-TCI-Bridge?

If your logger does not support sending spots via TCI (to Thetis) you can use Cluster-TCI-Bridge to that job for you!

Main-Features:

• Connection to TCI

• multiple telnet-clusters can be configured

• hide spots (do not send via TCI) based on mode (all bands) and/or based on band (all modes)

• hide spots based on mode on band

• set default color for TCI-Spots in Thetis

• set color based on search string (or list of strings comma separated) for dx-callsign or comment

• send text-filtered spots via UDP – to use it in Thetis mmio/multimeters

• disable TCI (standalone mode)

• Show ISS position including predicted course, with marker if ISS is optical observable on your location (needs grid locator in Setup)

• Map with all spots including mouse-over info, ISS data, realtime greyline and great circle lines from DX to your QTH (needs grid locator in Setup)

• PSTRotator-Support: double-click in spots-table and click on AZ in the spotinfo on the map to send the azimuth to PSTRotator (see Setup for IP/Port)

• Inbuilt webserver to render the map including greyline, spots and ISS to a png (ie. http://localhost:8123)

• and many more 😉

Special thanks to Richie, MW0LGE for the ideas, testing and the greyline code!

The software is 100% free of charge, no trialperiod or whatsoever. If you like it, a donation will be much appreciated!

 

Have fun with it
Ernst, OE3IDE

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Release notes:

V 1.1.44

• added: option in setup to forward cluster commands (when using Cluster-TCI-Bridge as a dx-cluster-server) to a connected telnet-cluster server. If nothing configured it will always forward commands to the first connected telnet-cluster

V 1.1.43

• added: Telnet output (in dx cluster format). Now can use Cluster-TCI-Bridge as regular dx-cluster in your logger. Currently there are NO commands (sh/dx, …) implemented. Only “bye” and “exit” for dropping the connection

V 1.1.42

• small bug fix

• added “enter key” into about box (will hide the donation button)

V 1.1.41

• fixed: spots are now sent with the exact frequency (Hz)

V 1.1.40

V 1.1.39 – not released

V 1.1.38

• fixed: possible bug in asycn swl spot send fixed

• fixed: resizing/positioning on enable/disable “hide tci/telnet/raw” via setup

• fixed: tray icon was shown more then once when using webserver

• fixed: beam lines across map

V 1.1.37

• added: CQ zones in map

• added: ITU zones in map

• fixed: telnet heartbeat

• added: pass through for pst receive data to another port (ie. Thetis mm i/o)

• added: altitude and speed for ISS

• added: option to hide TCI-, Telnet- and Raw-Panel (need application restart)

V 1.1.36

• added: sun and moon position (visible only if greyline is on)

• added: time display in map

• added: SWL support (swl table)

• added: validity in seconds will be sent encoded in “mode” for spots (needs Thetis 2.10.3.7)

• added: spotcolor for swl spots

• added: info “swl spots sent” to swl form

• added: filters for swl spots (on air, onyl broadcast bands, follow vfoA/B, text search)

• added: beam heading on map, receives azimuth data via udp in PSTRotator format AZ:nnn

• added: solar data (SFI,A,K) to sun on map

• added: shadow for ISS-icon on map

• added: manually entered commands in form send are now stored

• changed: all TCI now async

• changed: complete rewrite of debug log class

• fixed: great circle line to home-qth was not drawn

• fixed: ISS data query on connection timeout/connection drop

• fixed: ISS visibility circle on left/right edge

• fixed: wrong tci status info, when disabled while re-connecting was active

V 1.1.30

• added password option for telnet-connection

• added keep sort order on new spots

• rightclick on row or in map opens qrz.com page

• bugfix dx commands

• added webserver for image output of the map (including greyline and spots)

• added gridlocator to setup

• added home icon on map

• added targetline between home-location and dx-location (hover on circle)

• added azimuth/heading display in circle hover window

• change webimage output to show callsigns (last 3 of given lat/lon-circle)

• webimage output default size is 960×480. use ?hires=1 in url to force 1920×960 output

• added timer (1 min) to update greyline if no spot is coming in

• added leapjahr for greyline sim

• added selected date for day-slider in greyline sim

• fixed time sort order over midnight

• switched from cty.dat to cty.plist (countries.txt) for more detailed callsign data, including ITU-Zone,CQ-Zone, etc.)

• added option to output AZ/heading to PST-Rotator (with doubleclick in a row or click on AZ value in circle-hoverinfo)

• added distance in km to circle-hoverinfo

• added option “Show only spots from current band”

• added url arg “blobs=1” to show blobs on output webimage, blobs=0 shows rectangle with last 3 spots per lat/lon)

• added url arg lat,lon,zoom to show only a part of the map (hires must be on)

• added a url-generator for webimage in Setup

• lat/lon/zoom can only be used if hires Is on (setup)

• changed: maximized box disabled in map-form, forced window into 2:1 ratio

• bugfix: lat/lon/zoom only enabled in setup when hires is on

• bugfix: webserver process requests

• removing great circle line to target on leave of the blob (circle)

• added ISS live position (update every 5s)

• fix selected map is now correct highlighted in the drop-down menu “Maps”

• added SendSHDX to telnet-cluster config (sends SH/DX/100 on cluster start)

• added option to clear all spots on band-change

• bugfix ISS course

• fixed a bug where ISS icon turned not green after setup save

• faster loading of ISS data

• added predicted ISS-Course (using TLE data from https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/stations.txt)

• removed iss history course

• caching TLE data for ISS in INI (update limited to once per day)

• added distance, azimuth and elevation to current ISS position

• added overlay for predicted ISS course including current distance, azimuth and elevation

• added green line for ISS course if ISS is optical visible to the observer (using grid locator from settings)

• fixed zero values for lat/lon/zoom (webserver) in settings

• implemented Sgp4Data to do all the calculation for ISS

• fixed: flickering on overlapping clusters

• fixed: check valid pstrotator ip/port on save

• fixed: restore of callsign/commend color table on cancel & reopen

• fixed: width of zoom in setup

• fixed: blocking reConnect if TCI not available

• fixed: ISS infotext (was cut off near right window-edge)

• changed: predicted courseinfo now only rendered if mouseposition is inside the form

• changed: added 1px blackshadow to ISS-Info and predicted ISS-Info for better visibility

• added: support for cwskimmer telnet server

• added: ISS dataquery can now be enabled/disabled via icon-click in main screen (only for the current session)

• changed: optimized code (httpClient) in ISSDataManager class (better error handling, less client requests)

V 1.1.3

• added: hide-flag to color filter settings

• changed: udp output now in “n1mm” spot format

• added: “send only filtered” in settings (for color filters)

• added: hit-count and last seen for color filters (see settings)

• added: dx and spotter country and continent recognition (using cty.dat)

• added: filter for dx-continent and spotter-continent

• fixed: ui-improvements (formatting, sizing)

V 1.0.16

• added resizing datagrid

• added send spot

• changed tci-connection to async task

• added multi telnet cluster support

• added spot color based on search string (call or comment)

• added udp-output for filtered spots

• added double click in spot-row => tunes Thetis to freq and mode

• added default spot color selection

• added filter spot based on band + mode

• added spot color bases on frequency

V 1.0.5

• fixed: reading from dx-cluster if date-format is not standard

• added: text in in/out LEDs

V 1.0.4

• improved: reconnect telnet & connection watchdog

• added option: hide when close

• added: disable sending spot to tci based on mode (all bands)

• added: disable sending spot to tci based on band (all modes)

• added: hide spots in table if disabled (settings)

• bugfix: autoscroll on/off

• bugfix: debug console

 V 1.0.3

• added autoscroll/disable autoscroll on telnet outputs

• added online/offline icon

• added tooltip info on tray-icon, now you see which telnet-cluster is connected (usefull if you run more then one instance)

• added housekeeping task

• changed activity LEDs

• added table to ignore spots per band/mode (see settings)

V 1.0.2

• bug fixes

• improved TCI connect/reconnect

• added band and mode recognition

• added led-indicator for incoming data (telnet-cluster) and outgoing data (TCI)

• added button “send …” with selectable cluster commands, including returned telnet-output in “send”-window

• added option to disable TCI, so in case you want to use it just as a regular cluster-client

V 1.0.1

• initial release