HamAlert and FT8 spotting

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but if there’s enough interest perhaps we can persuade @VK3ARR to consider similar pskreporter integration on the development queue for RBNhole

So I did have this running for a bit in an inert mode (ie, generate everything but the spot) but ran into a few issues:

• PSKReporter has some ratelimiting in place meaning polling for updates can only happen every 5-10 minutes or so.
• The volume of spots in 5-10 minutes is massive, although nothing a computer can’t handle
• The volume of SOTA spots in that time is almost non-existent (but for some testing Ron VK3AFW did to help me).

I can revisit it (after a bunch of other more important things), but for now, low priority.

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Datamode - FT8

Since FT-8 is already too easy a mode, I figured we may as well try make it easier[*]. I’ve just pushed an update to RBNHole to monitor the PSKReporter website and post spots for JT-65 and FT-8. It is currently inert, meaning no spots are posted yet. I want to give it a bit of time to bake in with real world data. As such, if anyone is planning an FT-8 or JT-65 activation over the weekend, could you let me know via a PM here so that I can monitor to see if you would have been spotted. If I’…