[Dxspider-support] Hamclock connections

[David Spoelstra]

Mike-
Try elwood.downey at gmail.com
-David, N9KT

On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 10:03 PM Michael Walker <va3mw at portcredit.net> wrote:

> 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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