Linking spotting stations

[Peter Casier]

I wrote:

>Question: 
>1. How do you, the other M/S, M/M, S/O-assist, tackle the problem of
informing the spotters of the mults worked? If you do not want your reaction
to be published: tell me - hi.
>2. Do you have any suggestion how to solve this problem? Does anyone have
utility programs which could help us?
>

Only one message was received. Does this mean that everyone keeps their
solutions to themselves, or no-one has found a decent answer either? hi.
Anyway, here is the only answer received.

NX1H wrote:
>Why not just set up the remote sites as part of your CT network?  While
>I haven't tried networking CT via packet, I've heard that it has been 
>done.  I think CT has a "mults only" command-line switch (-MO maybe?)
>for just this.
>
>To make sure the spotting sites don't accidentally put a QSO into the 
>log, don't connect the spotter->OT*T half of the serial connection!
>

We have tried that, but it is quite complex, and only seems to work
semi-reliable with one remote station. Especially starting up the link is
critical (there seems to be a sync problem). Also, when there is a lot of
traffic on the CT network (with packet spots coming in from the cluster
e.g.), the link fails due to saturation it seems.
We have a lot of spotters, so although remote ct networking is a good idea,
it will not work with more than one remote station, I am afraid.


If any of you have more comments, let me know!

Peter - ON6TT.


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