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

[Kin]

Note to the ToDo:
Sign up for a CCC course.
 
🫶
 
Kin
 
De: Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces at tobit.co.uk> En nombre de Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support
Enviado el: jueves, 3 de abril de 2025 16:34
Para: The DXSpider Support list <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
CC: Keith, G6NHU <g6nhu at me.com>
Asunto: Re: [Dxspider-support] Who said ghosts don't exist?
 
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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