[Dxspider-support] Announcements loop

[Lee Sawkins]

This bug is caused by AR Cluster.  Certain errors cause AR Cluster software to halt with an OK button on the screen.  Pressing the OK button allows program execution to continue, sending out all the announcements which have queued up while it was halted.  AR Clusters do not disconnect each other for not returning pings, another bug.  So AR Clusters can stay connected to each other for days in a halted state.  Then they are allowed to continue by pressing the OK button.  DX Spots have time/date stamps so old ones are dropped.  Announces have no date/time stamps so they are not stopped.

73 Lee (ex - AR Cluster sysop)
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Angel M. Claus 
  To: The DXSpider Support list 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 2:03 AM
  Subject: [Dxspider-support] Announcements loop


  Hello to all,

  Apart of those ROS spots, it seems that there is an announcement's loop in process:

  15Jun2010 at 17:29:13 KI4TWA -> ALL TI8II, ROS file is attached to email
  15Jun2010 at 17:50:44 KI4TWA -> ALL TI8II, resent email, old eyes & fat fingers
  15Jun2010 at 18:49:26 KI4TWA -> ALL Too bad ROS NOT legal in US below 222
  15Jun2010 at 22:00:30 KI4TWA -> ALL TI8II, http://rosmodem.wordpress.com/
  15Jun2010 at 23:19:38 KI4TWA -> ALL TI8II, resent email, old eyes & fat fingers
  16Jun2010 at 00:13:22 KI4TWA -> ALL TI8II, ROS file is attached to email
  16Jun2010 at 00:40:37 KI4TWA -> ALL Download v.4.0 ROS to stop cluster problem
  16Jun2010 at 00:46:18 KI4TWA -> ALL Too bad ROS NOT legal in US below 222
  16Jun2010 at 05:07:10 KI4TWA -> ALL TI8II, resent email, old eyes & fat fingers
  16Jun2010 at 06:43:02 KI4TWA -> ALL Why are Announce from 12 hours ago repeating?
  16Jun2010 at 07:05:57 KI4TWA -> ALL TI8II, ROS file is attached to email
  16Jun2010 at 07:25:48 KI4TWA -> ALL Download v.4.0 ROS to stop cluster problem
  16Jun2010 at 07:30:20 KI4TWA -> ALL Too bad ROS NOT legal in US below 222


  We can see the same announcements from KI4TWA at different hours.... not only that callsign but everybody's announcements are being repeated again and again.

  73 de Angel - EA7WA.




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