Many thanks to all of the responses! This reflector is one of the many
reasons I love NA. I will forward the emails to my co-worker who is just
getting his shack re-vamped for contesting again.
All of the answers make me long for good internet access at home!
73
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Pruett [mailto:k8cc@comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:13 PM
To: NA-USER@contesting.com
Subject: RE: [NA-User] Using NA with Web Spots
With this discussion of using NA with web spots, I want to take this
opportunity to give an unabashed recommendation for WinTelnetX written by
Dave Robbins, K1TTT.
When I first got my broadband internet connection via a cable modem in late
1999, we cast about for a way to pull spots into our NA logging network at
K8CC. One of our ops for CQWW CW that year brought his licensed copy of
DXTelnet over to try. It took a lot of experimentation, but we eventually
got it to work.
The next major contest (2000 ARRL DX CW) we decided to try Dave's
WinTelnetX since it was freeware. We got it up and running quickly and
once we figured out the IP addresses for the various nodes, it worked
perfectly.
WinTelnetX has been our Internet packet interface ever since, and it
continues to work flawlessly. We turn it on whenever we do multi-ops - in
DX contests, SS, VHF/UHF, etc. We even recently put it on a laptop and
took it on our CQWW SSB trip to VE1JF, where it pulled spots from a
Compuserve dialup connection and fed it into a three-computer NA network
all weekend.
At K8CC, there are ten MS-DOS computers running NA in a loop network. Most
of the computers have two COM ports, one for the network and the other for
the radio interface. The main computer has extra ports, and WinTelnetX
(running on an eleventh shack computer under Win98SE) shoots spots into the
main computer on COM3.
I just want to publicly that Dave Robbins, K1TTT for his work with and
support of WinTelnetX.
73,
Dave/K8CC
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