[Skimmertalk] Windows 7 64-bit and SkimmerServer?

[Mark Bailey]

Good day: 

I need a faster computer for SkimmerServer.  Does it work with a QS1R under Windows 7 64-bit?  The current machine only manages about 2600 decoders...

Works fine under Windows 7 32-bit.

Thanks and 73,

Mark, kd4d

"Wes Cosand" <wes.cosand at gmail.com> wrote:

>What a difference a year makes!
>
>First an apology.  Of all the nights for Verizon to turn off the fiber
>optic
>line to the house for two hours, Saturday night was the wrong night. 
>Of
>course they changed the IP address so users who were using a numerical
>address instead of cw.wz7i.com were unable to reconnect.  I apologize.
>
>I think I have found a computer system appropriate for running
>SkimServer.
>I used an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 and at times it ran over 2200
>decoders
>without getting above 80% CPU utilization.  I never saw less than 100%
>decoding.  XP Pro was the OS and the Skimmer Server version was
>1.2.0.110.
>
>I was unaware of the CWSegment lines in the SkimSrv.ini file.  But
>Saturday
>morning I looked at a bandmap and saw a hole between 7.035 and 7.045
>and
>realized something was wrong.  I modified the default CWSegment lines
>and
>broadened the segments to accommodate contesters outside the strict CW
>portions of the bands.  Alex suggests having two or three versions of
>the
>CWSegment line and then “commenting out” the undesired lines so one can
>rapidly modify the file.  My current version of this area of the file
>is
>below but I can’t guarantee it is optimal. I am still learning.  I
>would be
>very interested in suggestions from contesters about appropriate band
>segments.
>;DX CW Segments
>CwSegments=1800000-1870000,3500000-3570000,7000000-7070000,10100000-10130000,14000000-14070000,18068000-18095000,21000000-21070000,24890000-24920000,28000000-28070000,50000000-50100000
>;Contest CW Segments
>;CwSegments=1800000-1870000,3500000-3600000,7000000-7100000,10100000-10130000,14000000-14125000,18068000-18095000,21000000-21120000,24890000-24920000,28000000-28120000,50000000-50100000
>
>Of course, there must not be any “carriage returns” in these lines.  If
>you
>bring up your SkimSrv.ini file in Notepad and turn off Word Wrap, the
>command should be one long line.  The above contest segments line
>assumes
>you will run 192 kHz bandwidth.
>
>With the telnet spot filtering set to “Aggressive”, and having the
>CWSegment
>line set inappropriately for the first 15 hours or so, the system
>generated
>63,000 spots from a HyGain HyTower Junior vertical.  This is not as
>many as
>some of the systems.
>
>I want to express my appreciation to those cluster owners who made
>these
>spots available to contesters without them having to connect directly
>to my
>computer.  I don’t have a good feel for how much telnet connections
>cost in
>cpu time or network traffic – I wouldn’t think it very much.  However I
>averaged 10 connections and it seemed to have an impact, at least on
>the
>house network.
>
>Hopefully during this contest I corrected a couple of stupid errors and
>next
>contest I will be better prepared.  Things went much better than last
>year!
>
>
>I welcome suggestions that would improve the data.  I hope folk had fun
>
>Wes, WZ7I
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