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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size: medium">When I see it in my log, I often email people to explain what’s happening (providing their email address is readily available).</span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size: medium">Some reply, some don’t. Some change, some don’t.</span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size: medium">Yes, some people are lazy but I want to provide the best service I can for all my users so I see this as a benefit. For me, it means that there’s less chance of these disconnect/reconnect loops and I can concentrate on other things.</span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size: medium">Also remember that not all software allows adding an SSID. There’s some very popular logging software for the Mac that has been around for years but it’s only in the most recent version that it’s allowed the operator to change the cluster callsign and that was added at my request!</span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size: medium">73 Keith.</span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span></div>
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<div name="messageReplySection">On 20 Apr 2025 at 13:54 +0100, Kin via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk>, wrote:<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>They</span></span> <span style='mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><span class="SpellE">should</span> be <span class="SpellE">documented</span> <span class="SpellE">before</span> <span class="SpellE">or</span> <span class="SpellE">during</span> use <span class="SpellE">of</span> a <span class="SpellE">tool</span>. <span class="SpellE">Changing</span> <span class="SpellE">it</span> <span class="SpellE">out</span> <span class="SpellE">of</span> <span class="SpellE">user</span> <span class="SpellE">laziness</span> <span class="SpellE">doesn't</span> <span class="SpellE">seem</span> <span class="SpellE">like</span> <span class="SpellE">the</span> <span class="SpellE">best</span> <span class="SpellE">option</span>.</span></p>
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<b>Enviado el:</b> domingo, 20 de abril de 2025 14:39<br />
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<b>CC:</b> Keith, G6NHU <g6nhu@me.com><br />
<b>Asunto:</b> Re: [Dxspider-support] ‘Bumped off by’ and HamClock</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Yes Kin but only if the operator configures them with different SSIDs. That’s the whole point, most people don’t do that so by HC forcing an SSID, it will help reduce the bumping. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>On 20 Apr 2025 at 13:22 +0100, Kin via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>>, wrote:<br />
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<br /></span> <span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>1) Normal logger</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>2) DX Cluster software, </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>like CC User or FL Cluster</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>3) Contest logger</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br /></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>4) HamClock</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br />
<br /></span> <span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>That’s four I can think of from the top of my head which could be running at the same time. I know quite a few amateurs with more than one HamClock running to display different things on the available panes. I’ve got three here, one is my general one, one is a self monitor and I have one running which is used to create a daily timelapse. All three have cluster connections.</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br />
<br /></span> <span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Some software doesn’t notify the user when the connection drops and reconnects. By forcing one of the above for examples to use an SSID, this reduces the chance of bumping and reconnecting.</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br />
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I’m sure that if anyone watches their debug log for any period of time that you’ll see multiple instances of someone getting bumped off, reconnecting and getting bumped off again in a loop.<br />
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This happens when more than three devices try and connect to the cluster network at the same time with exactly the same callsign. Often people don’t even notice it because the software just silently reconnects.<br />
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To help with this, from version 4.17, HamClock insists on an SSID as part of the cluster setup. SSIDs are treated as separate callsigns when it comes to the limit of three so this should help to reduce this bumping, disconnecting and reconnecting loop.<br />
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If someone is upgrading from 4.16 to 4.17 and they don’t have an SSID configured, HamClock will seamlessly add one for them and for new users, it will display some text telling them they have to use an SSID and giving an example.<br />
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4.17 hasn’t been released yet but it should be soon. Once it hits and people start updating, the instances of being bumped off should start to reduce.<br />
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Takeup of new versions is expected to speed up since 4.16 which introduces an automatic upgrade option.<br />
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