[NA-User] Using NA with Web Spots

[David A. Pruett]

With this discussion of using NA with web spots, I want to take this 
opportunity to give an unabashed recommendation for WinTelnetX written by 
Dave Robbins, K1TTT.

When I first got my broadband internet connection via a cable modem in late 
1999, we cast about for a way to pull spots into our NA logging network at 
K8CC.  One of our ops for CQWW CW that year brought his licensed copy of 
DXTelnet over to try.  It took a lot of experimentation, but we eventually 
got it to work.

The next major contest (2000 ARRL DX CW) we decided to try Dave's 
WinTelnetX since it was freeware.  We got it up and running quickly and 
once we figured out the IP addresses for the various nodes, it worked 
perfectly.

WinTelnetX has been our Internet packet interface ever since, and it 
continues to work flawlessly.  We turn it on whenever we do multi-ops - in 
DX contests, SS, VHF/UHF, etc.  We even recently put it on a laptop and 
took it on our CQWW SSB trip to VE1JF, where it pulled spots from a 
Compuserve dialup connection and fed it into a three-computer NA network 
all weekend.

At K8CC, there are ten MS-DOS computers running NA in a loop network.  Most 
of the computers have two COM ports, one for the network and the other for 
the radio interface.  The main computer has extra ports, and WinTelnetX 
(running on an eleventh shack computer under Win98SE) shoots spots into the 
main computer on COM3.

I just want to publicly that Dave Robbins, K1TTT for his work with and 
support of WinTelnetX.

73,

Dave/K8CC