Both the extremely popular CC Cluster nodes VE7CC and AE5E have had connection problems lately. Reliable, fast alternatives that also run VE7CC's CC Cluster node software are N2WQ (cluster.n2wq.com port 7373) and N4ZKF (dxc.n4zkf.com port 7373). N2WQ runs in the cloud on Amazon Web Services. Jim N7US