[Dxspider-support] Hamclock connections

[Stephen Carroll]

I've already brought this up with the author (Elwood) last year; with no
resolution in sight yet. It's not a DXSpider issue (or any other cluster
software or website), but rather excessive requirements by HamClock and/or
users that don't have it configured correctly.

On Wed, Mar 1, 2023, 7:53 PM David Spoelstra <davids at mediamachine.com>
wrote:

> 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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