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:
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
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 may
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 -- Barry Kutner, W2UP New
The link to AZ was to the Phoenix area. It used mountaintop digipeaters and then NetROMS. As I remember, N6ND in San Diego, N6CDA/N7MAL, and I were doing it, along with others. The link was pretty fr
.... and someone still says that Internet has killed amateur radio.... .... 73, Alessio 2007/10/7, Barry <w2up3@verizon.net>: _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list C
It has, Alessio. Here's why: My daughter started college a few months ago. For several months prior to going, she managed to contact a number of other kids going to the same school, via IM and Facebo
I'd normally agree but for one thing. Do IM and/or Facebook have contests? I ask because we had a LOT of high school kids at our last local club meeting (long story about why they were there, not imp
To those who are new to DXing with packetcluster, within the last 15 years or so, Jim used the word fragile to describe connections in the early days. In the early days members of the DX clubs in bot