[Dxspider-support] Communication between users

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Dirk Koopman wrote :

> Unfortunately this is an area where other authors have not spent much
> time and thus a chat PC12 may well have unexpected results on their
> software.
> 
> It did seem to produce something close to what I wanted with the
minimum
> of disruption from GB7DJK. Unfortunately though, it seems as though
> there is something out there that strips out my changes and then
> rebroadcasts chat as ANN/F (even though now it will only send chat to
> DXSpider nodes).
> 

I know that "clusse" (old cluster software) does not handle the AK1A
type PC12 chat frames correctly, but it seems that the Spider
AK1A-translation of those PC12 frames is also not correct, as they are
sent with the wrong 'originator-cluster' I think.  See my mail of
December 3, attached below :
(so I think it is better not to forward these frames to AK1A
linkpartners as this type is not only used for true AK1A's)

==>> quote (from my mail of 3dec-2003)

Hi Dirk,

I got a report that my cluster (PI8DXQ) was causing garbage PC12 frames
tonight. I was not aware of it before and have checked the debug log.

I found that PC-12 frames (loggernet) which I receive are not correctly
send out to an AK1A type node linkpartner.
As you can see below, the content is changed (^LOGGERNET^ is changed to
^LOGGERNET.LST^ and originator is PI8DXQ in the outgoing frame instead
of SK3W-6 !!)  See below :

1070391096^<- I PI4TUE-8 PC12^SM0LCB^*^#165
L*QSO;SM0LCB;N;27;20031202;1851;SM7XON;JO87FD;144M;SSB;28;8817;10;0;2;^L
OGGERNET^SK3W-6^0^H26^~

1070391096^-> D PI8DXG PC12^SM0LCB^*^#165
L*QSO;SM0LCB;N;27;20031202;1851;SM7XON;JO87FD;144M;SSB;28;8817;10;0;2;^L
OGGERNET.LST^PI8DXQ^0^H29^~

Probably this outgoing frame is again mutilated by my linkpartner
(pi8dxG) who is using old clusse software I believe, because later on, I
received this frame incoming again as :

1070392654^<- I PI4TUE-8 PC12^SM0LCB^*^#165
L*QSO;SM0LCB;N;27;20031202;1851;SM7XON;JO87FD;144M;SSB;28;8817;10;0;2;^
^PI8DXQ^0^H48^~

As you can see it is a normal announce now, and the "loggernet-part" is
gone. And it is also send out to my own users:

1070392654^-> D PA3DOL To ALL de SM0LCB: #165
L*QSO;SM0LCB;N;27;20031202;1851;SM7XON;JO87FD;144M;SSB;28;8817;10;0;2;%0
7%07


I have removed the link to PI8DXG for the moment until this is solved,
but maybe there are more DX-Spider's with a AK1A-type linkpartner which
cause the same garbage frames (?).

It seems to be a bug in DX-Spider which "translates" the frame wrong to
AK1A output (?)

(running DXSpider V1.51 build 57.253)


Any Idea's ?


73
Cees - PA3AES

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