[Dxspider-support] Hamclock connections

[Michael Walker]

I emailed him and the email bounced.

Mike va3mw


On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 9:53 PM Stephen Carroll via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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