[Dxspider-support] Hamclock connections

[David Spoelstra]

Maybe someone who understands the DX Spider software could contact the
HamClock author, Elwood Downey, WBØOEW, at ecdowney at clearskyinstitute.com.
He is very responsive (he's added two features I suggested) and can
probably easily fix the issue if someone can clearly explain it to him.
-David, N9KT


On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 5:25 PM Stephen Carroll via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm glad you brought this topic up. I have been planning to voice my
> opinion. What you tolerate as a SysOp is completely up to your individual
> threshold level. But, I have basically outlawed any user on my nodes from
> connecting if using HamClock. At one point, I had 6 users running the
> software 24/7. I refer to this software as a "resource hog" because of how
> much data it requests for every spot, then resends the users Name, QTH and
> QRA every 15-30 seconds (which is probably the default). I have a modest
> computer and cable modem setup for the cluster and home network usage. If
> the connected user callsign appears like this (AA4U), they are probably
> using HamClock. I will usually ask the user to connect to a larger scale
> node, after explaining why it's a resource hog.
>
> YMMV !!!
>
> 73, Steve - AA4U
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2023, 3:59 PM Michael Walker via Dxspider-support <
> dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> Since I am digging into a few things, one of my users was sending a
>>
>> set/location about every 15 seconds
>>
>> and then a show/heading for every spot.
>>
>> It turns out it was HAMCLOCK which seems really chatty.
>>
>> Mike va3mw
>>
>>
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