<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I was wondering if anyone can shed some light on what the initial handshake between two cluster partners looks like. Presumably it is something like this:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><ol dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><li>Cluster A connects to Cluster B.</li><li>Cluster B says "Login:"</li><li>Cluster A says "N2WQ-1"</li><li>What happens next?</li></ol><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have been trying to see how this works by connecting to my cluster and providing a SSID registered as a partner, but nothing happens after I provide the SSID:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:d680976b-5a88-4912-bea8-bd9ad730f753@yahoo.com" class="yahoo-inline-image" draggable="false" style="max-width: 800px;" data-id="<d680976b-5a88-4912-bea8-bd9ad730f753@yahoo.com>"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Meanwhile, I enabled logging in Winsock to see the chatter between partners and see something like this:<br><br><span></span><span></span><div><div> -> 22:14:10 N2WQ-1 PC61^21339.0^K0WHY^08-Mar-2025^2214Z^OK QSO Party: Kay^K4SBZ^AE5E^135.129.119.21^H98^~</div><div><span style="color: var(--text-primary); background-color: var(--background-main);"> -> 22:14:11 ND4X PC61^21339.0^K0WHY^08-Mar-2025^2214Z^OK QSO Party: Kay^K4SBZ^AE5E^135.129.119.21^H98^~</span></div><div> -> 22:14:11 EA7JXH PC61^21339.0^K0WHY^08-Mar-2025^2214Z^OK QSO Party: Kay^K4SBZ^AE5E^135.129.119.21^H97^~</div></div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">So going back to my question on the initial handshake, how do I get traffic going to show PC61 messages?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Rudy N2WQ</div></div></body></html>