[Dxspider-support] Who said ghosts don't exist?

[Keith, G6NHU]

Ahh, but Kin, you forget two important things which I learned yesterday from reading a thread on the CC User groups.io reflector.

CCC is for contesters and dxspider doesn’t work well for contesters.  Also CCC is the ‘gold standard’ for dxcluster software and everything else should be compatible with it.

I almost spat out my tea at those revolutions.

[end sarcasm]

73 Keith.


On 3 Apr 2025 at 14:03 +0100, Kin via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>, wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've spent days writing and rewriting code, I've tried everything and cursed
> a thousand times.
> At last, I've realised that, although I'm not particularly skilled with
> Perl, you can't squeeze blood from a stone.
> I was comparing the spots sent by two nodes in real time using two Telnet
> sessions - in other words, as a regular user, with no PC11/61 analysis or
> anything like that.
> But I was always missing spots. I found one bug, but the only thing I
> managed to do was reduce the number of missing spots.
>
> I had the bright idea of connecting to a CCC, and discovered that my script
> wasn't failing at all when it claimed there were missing spots on the CC
> Cluster screen.
> When I ran a sh/dx, the spot appeared - but not when I was watching in real
> time.
> I thought perhaps it was due to CCC's preference for using set/ve7cc, but
> nope - exactly the same result.
> The spots do arrive and are handled by the CCC, but some of them simply
> aren't shown in the Telnet session - unless you query the historical data.
>
> In practical terms, that's as good as the spot never having reached the
> node.
> The same thing happens in two separate sessions connected to the same CCC
> node.
>
> I've attached a couple of screenshots.
> The first shows a CCC on the left and a DXSpider on the right, both
> connected.
> The second screenshot shows how I queried two DXs that didn't appear in the
> first capture - but, as if by magic, they are in the history.
>
> You can verify it yourselves.
>
> Kin EA3CV
>
>
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