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

[Richard DiDonna NN3W]

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 at alum.mit.edu>
To: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "CQ Contest" <cq-contest at 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 at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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