[Skimmertalk] Fwd: Fwd: Re: aggregator sunrise/sunset?

[W3OA]

Here's what I think is happening:

Aggregator calculates sunrise and sunset times every time it connects to 
its primary skimmer.  This works fine when the primary skimmer is CW 
Skimmer or CW Skimserv because Aggregator disconnects from  and 
reconnects to the primary skimmer every time Aggregator rotates the ini 
file.

As I recall from Dave's previous posts, one of his Aggregators uses an 
instance of RTTY SkimServ for it's primary skimmer. (Dave, is this 
correct?) In that case, Aggregator does not disconnect from and 
reconnect to the primary skimmer when rotating .ini files.  Instead, it 
sends a SKIMMER/RESTART telnet command to force using the new .ini 
parameters.  In this configuration Aggregator could run for a long time 
without updating the sunrise and sunset times.  Not a good thing.  I 
need to fix it.

Dave previously asked me to change this so that on ini rotations 
Aggregator will treat RTTY Skimserv as it does CW Skimserv.  This would 
fix the current sunrise sunset problem.  But I have not made the change 
yet.  My comments in the code say I had to treat RTTY Skimmer 
differently but don't say why, and I can't remember. Could well be this 
was a misunderstanding on my part.  I need to spend some more time 
trying to figure this out.

73 - Dick, W3OA



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Subject: 	Re: [Skimmertalk] aggregator sunrise/sunset?
Date: 	Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:17:49 +0000
From: 	David Robbins <k1ttt at verizon.net>
Reply-To: 	k1ttt at arrl.net
Organization: 	k1ttt
To: 	'SkimmerTalk Reflector' <skimmertalk at contesting.com>



Grid is displayed in upper case so that is ok.  both machines set to utc.

  

I closed the wrong one and reopened it then it now it displays the correct times.  I am wondering if the aggregator only calculates the sunrise/set once a week or something like that?  this time of year the difference could be several minutes a day.

  

  

David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail:mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web:http://wiki.k1ttt.net  <http://wiki.k1ttt.net/>  
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz ortelnet://k1ttt.net:7373

  

  

From:rawilson at gmail.com  [mailto:rawilson at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Bob Wilson, N6TV
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 20:05
To: SkimmerTalk Reflector
Cc: Dave Robbins, K1TTT
Subject: Re: [Skimmertalk] aggregator sunrise/sunset?

  

Did you check the Windows Time Zone setting?

  

Also, does it display in uppercase as FN32LL or FN32II (eye and el look the same in lower case in many fonts).




73,

Bob, N6TV

  

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 4:10 AM, David Robbins<k1ttt at verizon.net>  wrote:

I have 2 computers running skimmers, one has the correct sunrise/sunset
times  1140z/2234z, the other is wrong showing 1206z/2208z.  both show grid
as fn32ll, both clocks are showing the same date/time.  just happened to
notice because when I just checked one was still on the night ini file and
the other was on the day one.  what inputs could be different, or is one of
them just not updating the calculation for some reason???



David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail:<mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net>  mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web:<http://wiki.k1ttt.net/>  http://wiki.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or<telnet://k1ttt.net:7373>
telnet://k1ttt.net:7373





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