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

[Barry]

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 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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Barry Kutner, W2UP             Newtown, PA