DX spot recommendation - off topic

Me too!

I am using VE7CC DX Cluster spot system, you can also look at his CC cluster software (Free).  There are many more out there,  you can find lists in log programs such as N1MM, HRD and Log4OM to name some.

I find http://hamspots.net very good for digital modes.

Lots of good ones. I like the looks and flexibility of DXHeat.

dxc.k3nc.com is the best in the wprld!

@Burt

I know I should just ignore you and

We all understand that you get your jollies by making people angry with you

But when you have nothing POSITIVE to contribute to a conversation, I am sure that most people would prefer that you keep your NEGATIVE thoughts bottled up inside you.... rather than moving electrons with them 

For what you want it sounds like a telnet client might be the most economical then pick off the data and put it into a band filtered (possibly mode filtered) database for your display.  If you use a telnet client each user can tell the client which spot feed to use.  You can use something like puttytel or putty to collect the data

http://www.ng3k.com/misc/cluster.html

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Putty uses something like 1.5mb of memory

73  W9OY

DX Heat & QRZCQ are the two web-based clusters I use,  Of the two, I've come to like QRZCQ the best because it includes beam headings. I have our local club cluster connected to HRDLog.  My usual approach is to see what bands are open and then run one or two instances of CW Skimmer while I do my web browsing on this laptop, then click on anything that turns up that I feel like working.

Actually a number of people have commented to me about your obvious attempts to hijack threads with irrelevant comments. So we is appropriate whenever I comment on your picadillos.

Regardless of how many tools you have at your disposal, success at DX requires the skill to properly use them.  A spotter will get you to where the pileup is.  The amp will get you heard most of the time.  The antenna will let you hear the DX.  However, you still have to compete with hundreds of other guys calling within a small slice of bandwidth.

Even with a spotting software, an amp, and a 9 element Yagi up 50 feet I have still spent hours patiently sending my call hundreds of times until I finally got acknowledged by the DX - especially in my pre-Flex days.

Now I look at the panadapter and try to spot where the last guy was that got called on.  I look to see if there is a pattern like the DX moving his receiver either up or down and in what increments... then I plant my transmit slice where I think he will be and call.  That's got me more QSLs than all the other tools that I have used.

I have used virtually every spots program out there.

There are real time ones such as CWSkimmer, DM780 which give you the actual calls that you are seeing

There are virtual ones Writelog Band map and HRD LOGBOOK Spots Band Map which give you a separate band map but don't show the panafall.
COMMCAT falls into this category without a band map

But these two are less than optimal because they fail to superimpose the spots over the panafall

Finally there are Optimal Spots Band Maplike NaP3 and Dogspark Software which actually place the spots onto the Panafall

Frankly the most useful is the third category in that you can see the spots and the quality of the signal.

IMNSHO THIS is clearly the biggest missing feature in Samert SDR.