[UK-CONTEST] Telnet

[Peter Bowyer]

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Peter G4MJS

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cooper, Stewart" <coopers at odl.co.uk>
To: "'Steve Bunting'" <stephen.bunting at kcl.ac.uk>;
<uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 9:01 AM
Subject: RE: [UK-CONTEST] Telnet


> Steve,
> I have a little no-frills page generated by my cluster (GB7DXN) which is
> designed for use with my SmartPhone. It will do what you want. I use it
with
> an Orange SPV E100. Go to http://korma.odl.co.uk/dx/dx.asp. I will refresh
> every minute. If it fails to do so (as it sometimes does) just reload the
> page manually. (And yes, some of my servers are named after curries!)
> Cheers,
> Stewart
> GM4AFF
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Bunting [mailto:stephen.bunting at kcl.ac.uk]
> Sent: 13 December 2003 07:43
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Telnet
>
>
> Hi again everyone,
>
> I have a brief question for you all from a computing innocent.....
>
> 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.
>
> Can anyone advise or add experiences to this?
>
> Thanks as always.
>
> 73
> Steve
> M0BPQ
>
>
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