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Recording wav files in WD 3.0.3.3

Rob Robinett
 

Starting in WD 3.0.3.3, when ARCHIVE_WAV_FILES="yes" is defined in wsprdaemon.conf a currently running WD client will start to cache all wav files after they are decoded and queued for posting to wsprnet.org.  When so enabled, at each odd two minute WD stores all of the currently cached wav files into a single compressed tar file in 
the ~/wsprdaemon/wav-archive.d directory.  That tar file's name is derived from the WD client's site name, maidenhead, and date of the most recent .wav file it contains and with the file name extension .tar.zst .  For example, at KFS the file 'KFS_CM87tj_220805_0808.tar.zst' contains a group of wav files the most recent of which recorded the WSPR cycle which started at Aug 5, 2022 at 08:08 UDT. In almost all cases, all of the wav files in such a tar file come from the same WSPR cycle.

Since these wav files are uncompressed audio they are quite large so that a 30 minute wav file which might contain a FST4W-1800 signal will be almost 50 MBytes.  When the file system which contains ~/wsprdaemon/wav-archive.d  is more than 75% full, WD will delete the oldest *.tar.zst.  Depending upon the number of receive channels, the number and type of modes, and size of that file system, anywhere from less than one day to more than 7 days of wav files may be stored.  At KFS which has 26 receive channels any many modes, the *.tar.zst files occupy about 1TByte and the oldest *.tar.zst is about a week old.  You can get a summary of those files by executing 'wd-wav':

wd_client@KFS-WD3:~$ wd-wav
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5       1.8T  1.2T  596G  66% /
1007G /home/wd_client/wsprdaemon/wav-archive.d/
total 1054179476
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client   55059954 Aug 13 03:03 KFS_CM87tj_220813_0300.tar.zst
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client 1416112247 Aug 13 03:01 KFS_CM87tj_220813_0258.tar.zst
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client   47595138 Aug  5 08:13 KFS_CM87tj_220805_0810.tar.zst
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client  163404506 Aug  5 08:11 KFS_CM87tj_220805_0808.tar.zst
wd_client@KFS-WD3:~$


To extract a wav file of interest, run 'tar axf FILE.tar.zst' and cd to the subdirectory it creates, e.g:

wd_client@KFS-WD3:~/wsprdaemon/wav-archive.d$ ls -lrt | tail
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client   52615034 Aug 13 01:07 KFS_CM87tj_220813_0104.tar.zst
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client   51904896 Aug 13 01:09 KFS_CM87tj_220813_0106.tar.zst
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client  178258309 Aug 13 01:11 KFS_CM87tj_220813_0108.tar.zst
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client   52150886 Aug 13 01:13 KFS_CM87tj_220813_0110.tar.zst
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client  575320030 Aug 13 01:15 KFS_CM87tj_220813_0112.tar.zst
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client   51171957 Aug 13 01:17 KFS_CM87tj_220813_0114.tar.zst
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client   50051569 Aug 13 01:19 KFS_CM87tj_220813_0116.tar.zst
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client  176094891 Aug 13 01:21 KFS_CM87tj_220813_0118.tar.zst
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client   54001300 Aug 13 01:23 KFS_CM87tj_220813_0120.tar.zst
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client  188987066 Aug 13 01:25 KFS_CM87tj_220813_0122.tar.zst

wd_client@KFS-WD3:~/wsprdaemon/wav-archive.d$ tar axf KFS_CM87tj_220813_0112.tar.zst

wd_client@KFS-WD3:~/wsprdaemon/wav-archive.d$ ls -lh KFS_CM87tj_220813_0112.tar.zst
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client 549M Aug 13 01:15 KFS_CM87tj_220813_0112.tar.zst
 
wd_client@KFS-WD3:~/wsprdaemon/wav-archive.d$ du -sh KFS_CM87tj
938M KFS_CM87tj

wd_client@KFS-WD3:~/wsprdaemon$ cd wav-archive.d/KFS_CM87tj/KIWI_Omni_A/20/

wd_client@KFS-WD3:~/wsprdaemon/wav-archive.d/KFS_CM87tj/KIWI_Omni_A/20$ ls -l
total 30952
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client 21602348 Aug 13 01:15 220813_0100.wav
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client  7200812 Aug 13 01:15 220813_0110.wav
-rw-rw-r-- 1 wd_client wd_client  2880556 Aug 13 01:14 220813_0112.wav
wd_client@KFS-WD3:~/wsprdaemon/wav-archive.d/KFS_CM87tj/KIWI_Omni_A/20$

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