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Re: [CQ-Contest] How big is the DX cluster?

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How big is the DX cluster?
From: "Alessio Sacchi" <iz4efn@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 18:26:50 +0200
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....

and someone still says that Internet has killed amateur radio....

....

73,
Alessio

2007/10/7, Barry <w2up3@verizon.net>:
>
> In 1986, when I lived in NH about 10 miles from AK1A, there was the PCBS
> (Packet Conference Bulletin System.)  One stand-alone "node," 8-10
> users, and that was it.
> Barry W2UP
>
> Richard DiDonna NN3W wrote:
> > I remember back in about '88 or '89 when the San Diego DX Club was
> connected
> > to the Southern Cal DX Club, and we were trying to find a path to the
> > Northern Arizona group.  Maybe 7 to 10 nodes, and maybe 100 users total.
> >
> > 73 Rich NN3W
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
> > To: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
> > Cc: "CQ Contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 4:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How big is the DX cluster?
> >
> >
> >
> >> I mis-spoke.  There was bug in CC Cluster which caused an explosion of
> >> the number of nodes, the real number is below:
> >>
> >> Cluster: 392 nodes  304 Locals  3169 Total users   Uptime   2
> days  0:59
> >>
> >> Still, that's an impressive number of users!
> >>
> >> I put a snapshot of this on the web site:
> >>
> >>     http://www.dxcluster.info/Oct-06-2007.htm
> >>
> >> 73 - Jim AD1C
> >>
> >> Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dirk G1TLH and Lee VE7CC have been working on improving the
> >>> communication between DX Cluster nodes (DX Spider and CC Cluster,
> >>> respectively).  Check out the message I just saw when I logged into
> W0MU:
> >>>
> >>> Cluster: 805 nodes  8 Locals  3799 Total users   Uptime   1 days  0:28
> >>>
> >>> I remember the days when there were about 50 nodes and 300+
> users.  This
> >>> is an order of magnitude larger!
> >>>
> >>> Way to go, guys!
> >>>
> >>> Instead of ANN/FULL, try TALK instead, even if the user isn't visible
> to
> >>> your node.  It just might work!
> >>>
> >>> 73 - Jim AD1C
> >>>
> >>>
> >> --
> >> Jim Reisert AD1C/0, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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> Barry Kutner, W2UP             Newtown, PA
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