[Dxspider-support] HamClock show/heading update

[Keith Maton]

Hi Dirk,

No, nothing wrong with it, it works perfectly but if you read back through some messages to this reflector, there have been complaints about HamClock sending a show/heading after every spot so it can use the response to plot the spotted callsign on a map. This change stops that and the calculation is done locally on the HamClock.

Now HamClock will be very quiet, will only issue a handful of commands on connect and that’s about it.

73 Keith


> On 17 Jan 2024, at 11:52, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Is there something wrong with the show/heading command?
> 
> On 17/01/2024 08:24, Keith Maton via Dxspider-support wrote:
>> As previously mentioned, I’ve been in regular contact with the author of HamClock and following feedback, I am beta testing a version of HamClock which no longer uses the show/heading command for locating stations and plotting them on the map.  It now does all the calculations locally.
>> 
>> When a HamClock initially connects to a node, it sends the following:
>> 
>> 1705478550^(DXCommand) G6NHU-10 connected from 192.168.1.137 cols 80
>> 1705478550^(progress) CMD: 'set/qra JO01ou' by G6NHU-10 ip: 192.168.1.137 1mS
>> 1705478550^(progress) CMD: 'set/location 51 50 N 1 13 E' by G6NHU-10 ip: 192.168.1.137 1mS
>> 1705478550^(progress) CMD: 'unset/here ' by G6NHU-10 ip: 192.168.1.137 0mS
>> 
>> And that’s it.  The only other interaction it will have with the node is that if there is no traffic passed in a ten minute period, it does this:
>> 
>> 1705466270^(progress) CMD: 'ping ' by G6NHU-10 ip: 192.168.1.137 0mS
>> 
>> Once this has gone through testing and rolls out, it will rely on the HamClock owners to update their software.  Elwood feels that the half-life for HamClock updates is a couple of months so it will take a while for the changes to pickle through but we should start seeing a decrease in show/heading commands straight away and that decrease will continue as more people update.
>> 
>> Hopefully this will satisfy everyone.
>> 
>> 73 Keith G6NHU
>> 
>> 
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