[Dxspider-support] spot aging

charlie carroll k1xx at rindge.nh.ultranet.com
Wed Oct 31 13:16:23 GMT 2001


I am trying to track down why some spots that came into my node did not
get issued.  Filters are not suspect.  I thought aging might have been
an issue, but they are only about 5 minutes older than the time on the
node computer which is set from an external time standard.

If I look at an extract of my \spider\data\debug\2001\300.dat file I
have:

1004146096^<- I W9ZRX-4 PC11^14334.8^SV9CVY^27-Oct-2001^0121Z^
^K3SV^NE3H^H11^~
1004146096^-> D K1XX PC11^14334.8^SV9CVY^27-Oct-2001^0121Z^
^K3SV^NE3H^H10^~
1004146096^-> D VE9EMO-9 PC11^14334.8^SV9CVY^27-Oct-2001^0121Z^
^K3SV^NE3H^H10^~
1004146096^-> D WA2UMX PC11^14334.8^SV9CVY^27-Oct-2001^0121Z^
^K3SV^NE3H^H10^~
1004146096^-> D N2TX PC11^14334.8^SV9CVY^27-Oct-2001^0121Z^
^K3SV^NE3H^H10^~
1004146096^-> D NG2P PC11^14334.8^SV9CVY^27-Oct-2001^0121Z^
^K3SV^NE3H^H10^~
1004146096^-> D PI5EHV-8 PC11^14334.8^SV9CVY^27-Oct-2001^0121Z^
^K3SV^NE3H^H10^~
1004146096^-> D KC1XX-7 DX de K3SV:      14334.8 
SV9CVY                                      0121Z%07%07
1004146096^-> D K1XX-6 DX de K3SV:      14334.8 
SV9CVY                                      0121Z%07%07
1004146096^-> D W2AA PC11^14334.8^SV9CVY^27-Oct-2001^0121Z^
^K3SV^NE3H^H10^~
1004146096^-> D N3RA PC11^14334.8^SV9CVY^27-Oct-2001^0121Z^
^K3SV^NE3H^H11^~
1004146096^<- I N3RA PC11^14334.8^SV9CVY^27-Oct-2001^0121Z^
^K3SV^NE3H^H12^~
1004146099^<- I K1XX PC11^7077.0^9A7A^27-Oct-2001^0123Z^QSX
7219^KC1XX^KC1XX^H97^~
1004146101^<- I N3RA PC11^21255.1^RI3A^27-Oct-2001^0122Z^
^W2TV-1^K3GYS^H12^~
1004146101^-> D K1XX PC11^21255.1^RI3A^27-Oct-2001^0122Z^
^W2TV-1^K3GYS^H11^~
1004146101^-> D W9ZRX-4 PC11^21255.1^RI3A^27-Oct-2001^0122Z^
^W2TV-1^K3GYS^H12^~
1004146101^-> D VE9EMO-9 PC11^21255.1^RI3A^27-Oct-2001^0122Z^
^W2TV-1^K3GYS^H11^~
1004146101^-> D WA2UMX PC11^21255.1^RI3A^27-Oct-2001^0122Z^
^W2TV-1^K3GYS^H11^~
1004146101^-> D N2TX PC11^21255.1^RI3A^27-Oct-2001^0122Z^
^W2TV-1^K3GYS^H11^~
1004146101^-> D NG2P PC11^21255.1^RI3A^27-Oct-2001^0122Z^
^W2TV-1^K3GYS^H11^~
1004146101^-> D PI5EHV-8 PC11^21255.1^RI3A^27-Oct-2001^0122Z^
^W2TV-1^K3GYS^H11^~
1004146101^-> D KC1XX-7 DX de W2TV:      21255.1 
RI3A                                        0122Z%07%07
1004146101^-> D K1XX-6 DX de W2TV:      21255.1 
RI3A                                        0122Z%07%07

You'll notice the spot for 9A7A from KC1XX did not get issued.  An
earlier spot for 9A7A occured approximately 15 minutes before this one. 
I have numerous examples of this same thing happening for spots from
KC1XX.  The problem seems to only be with spots from KC1XX at node
KC1XX.

At this point I am stumped.  Any suggestions?

Charlie, k1xx


Dirk Koopman wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 13:36, charlie carroll wrote:
> > It appears that if a spot is somewhat older than the current time, it
> > will not be put out to users or forwarded to other links.  How much
> > older, and can this value be set?  If so where?
> >
> 
> The standard range if -60 / +15 minutes. I would check very carefully
> that the time on your node is really correct before fiddling but:-
> 
>   set/var $DXProt::pc11_max_age = 3600
> 
> is the command to set it to the no of seconds old you are prepared to
> tolerate a spot living. There is no mechanism for altering the amount of
> time in the future that is allowed, currently that is set in stone as 15
> mins.
> 
> You put the above (suitably altered) command in your
> /spider/scripts/startup file.
> 
> You can also issue it on the console.
> 
> Dirk
> 
> 
> 
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