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

Barry w2up3 at verizon.net
Sun Oct 7 13:49:29 EDT 2007


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 Facebook.  When we were driving her there, she 
made the comment "it will be really neat to finally meet the kids I've 
been talking to for the last few months."  That line sounded eerily 
familiar to my early days in amateur radio, prior to attending a local 
hamfest or Dayton.
73,
Barry W2UP

Alessio Sacchi wrote:
> ....
>
> and someone still says that Internet has killed amateur radio....
>
> ....
>
> 73,
> Alessio
>
> 2007/10/7, Barry <w2up3 at 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 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
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