[Dxspider-support] Hamclock connections

[Stephen Carroll]

David,

I'm curious, since you are apparently a HamClock user. Do you run a cluster
node and does it feed your HamClock? If so, have you experienced firsthand
how much this software is a "resource hog"?

I'd like to find a node SysOp who runs HamClock that can explain what their
experience has been and if that person sees what I see with all the
inquiries from the software. Maybe it's a user settings issue.

73, Steve


On Thu, Mar 2, 2023, 4:30 AM David Spoelstra <davids at mediamachine.com>
wrote:

> 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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