[UK-CONTEST] Re: UK-Contest Digest, Vol 12, Issue 8

[Tom Wylie]

Contact GM4RLZ of GM5A - we do this all the time

73 de tom
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>    1. Telnet (Steve Bunting)
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> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 07:43:26 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Steve Bunting <stephen.bunting at kcl.ac.uk>
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> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Telnet
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> Hi again everyone,
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> I have a brief question for you all from a computing innocent.....
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> I am looking into telnet cluster access to using a GPRS mobile
> phone. The idea is to get reliable cluster access from a remote contest
> location, RF links have proved to be nothing but trouble. I am trying to
> assess the cost of keeping the link live for a 24hour contest. As you
> probably know the phone companies charge per MB transferred rather than
> unit time, with Orange it is 2.55UKP plus VAT per MB. 
> 
> Now my questions: how many bytes constitute one cluster spot? A more
> difficult question is how many spots are there per contest weekend? I am
> guessing at a mean of 3 spots per minute, i.e. 180 per hour and
> therefore 3420 per 24 hours. Lets round that up to a ballpark 5000. Is
> that reasonable for a FD? 
> 
> I don't want to commit to a route that will cost a fortune to keep
> alive, but I am guessing that a single spot is pretty small. If I am
> feeling very tight, I can probably reduce traffic (and hence costs) by
> setting filters at the cluster.
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> Can anyone advise or add experiences to this?
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> Thanks as always.
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> 73
> Steve
> M0BPQ
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