[Dxspider-support] An update about HamAward.

[Ciemon Dunville]

Keith,

Great work!

It's good to see people being proactive, forming good relationships,
sharing information and understanding, and ultimately getting the problem
fixed. Thanks for being a good ambassador.

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Ciemon Dunville - GØTRT <https://www.qrz.com/db/G0TRT>
Warminster, Wiltshire. UK
Sysop @G0TRT-9




On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 at 13:52, Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> All,
>
> A couple of weeks ago, I decided to approach the HamAward people
> independently to see if we could come to some solution for the current
> problem, much the same way I did with the HamClock developer about 18
> months ago.
>
> Once I'd made contact with them, I was introduced to one of their
> developers and we've been talking. Knowing how we handled the initial spots
> earlier this year and the actions they took was quite eye opening. Part of
> their process was to check that each spot appeared on the network in
> various places after it was submitted and if it didn't show, an automatic
> process would be taken to re-push the spot through. This was a big part of
> the problem.
>
> We talked at length, I proposed a solution and it's been implemented and
> running for a week or so now. The process I described above regarding
> re-pushing a spot has been removed completely.
>
> They've set up a new node using the current build of dxspider with the
> callsign IW1FRU-74 and at the moment, it has just one connection into the
> network, to my G6NHU-2 node.
>
> When their activators hit the ‘submit spot' button on their custom
> software, a number of checks are made to ensure the validity of the sender
> and when they last submitted a spot. This duplication time has been
> increased to to 15 minutes so the most any activator will be able to spot
> themselves is four times an hour. Providing these checks are passed, a
> telnet session is created into their node and the spot is sent.
>
> This has been running for nearly a week and in all the time I've been
> keeping an eye on it, I've not seen one bad spot come through, everything
> appears to be working perfectly well. You can do an rcmd command to
> IW1FRU-74 and check to see who's logged on and active at any time, and you
> can enter 'sh/dx origin iw1fru-74' on your own node to see the spots that
> have been submitted from them.
>
> I know some sysops won't be happy that I've been talking to an
> organisation that's been considered the enemy for a few months but my logic
> is simple. I want good, reliable and accurate spots on my cluster, and I
> want to know these spots are genuine. I think that this is a good solution
> for all sides.
>
> 73 Keith.
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