Receive filtered spot notifications from HamAlert via its telnet interface
domain: hamalert.org · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Register a free HamAlert account and define one or more triggers on the Triggers page, specifying conditions such as callsign, DXCC, mode, band, or spot source (RBN, PSK Reporter, DX cluster, SOTA/POTA feeds).
Enable the 'Telnet' action on each trigger you want delivered to a telnet client.
On the Destinations page, note your personal HamAlert telnet endpoint and credentials, then connect a cluster-monitoring or logging client to that interface the same way you would to a standard DX cluster.
Alternatively, enable a URL-notification action on a trigger to have HamAlert POST the alert as JSON to your own HTTP endpoint whenever it fires.
Tune trigger conditions to stay well under HamAlert's automatic-disable threshold, since triggers matching more than roughly 10,000 spots per day are auto-disabled as too broad.
Known gotchas
HamAlert has no public read/query REST API for arbitrary spot search; delivery is push-based via telnet, the mobile app, Threema, or a webhook you configure per trigger, not a request/response API.
PSK Reporter-sourced alerts are deliberately held back until a quorum of three independent spotters confirms the same callsign/band/mode, so expect added latency specifically for that source.
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