[Dxspider-support] Recent posts

[Iain Philipps]

[G0RDI decloaks for his once-a-year posting]

Ian,

The answer is "What's your delivery infrastructure" ?

If you believe that the vast majority are internet users (and they probably are, IMHO) then put all the bells and whistles in you like.

On the other hand, what do you do for the "real" users - those still using 1200bps radio circuits to connect? OK - I guess you can build in a switch "low speed on interface 'x'"

Just a point to ponder :-)


73 de G0RDI

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ian Maude 
  To: The DXSpider Support list 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:48 PM
  Subject: [Dxspider-support] Recent posts


  Hi all,
  I have been watching recent posts with interest.  I feel we are still being limited by having to keep supporting AK1A.  I wonder if it about time that Dirk and Lee (and others) started to think more about moving the cluster network forward and less about always having to provide backward compatibility?  It really is about time the AK1A nodes were retired IMHO, after all, the price of the new software is right :)  Todays cluster network needs to be more dynamic and control is becoming more and more important.  The majority of users are using modern logging clients that would benefit from having an XML interface for example.


  I may be talking complete rubbish here and it would not be the first time ;)  I really do think  we need to look at the future though.  How would cluster software look if AK1A was not a factor?


  73 Ian


  -- 
  Ian J Maude, G0VGS
  SysOp GB7MBC & HB9DRV-9 DX Clusters
  Member RSGB, GQRP 9838, FISTS 14077 | K3 #455
  http://www.amateurradiotraining.org 




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