[UK-CONTEST] DX Cluster

[Don Beattie]

Chris,

I have not had that experience. I use GB7MDX and the volume is huge. So much
so that I have turned off all announces and non-European origin spots (I
only accept spots from stations in Zones 14-20). MDX runs DX Spider now
which is great, so there is super filtering available.

I wonder if part of your period of silence was associated with the cluster
being isolated from the network for a short while ? The inter-cluster links
occasionally have their moments.

I'd suggest you clear all the filters in your personal settings at the
cluster and see if the problem still remains.

73

Don


----- Original Message -----
From: "G3SJJ" <g3sjj at btinternet.com>
To: "UK-Contest" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 10:56 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] DX Cluster


> I have been monitoring the DX Cluster over the last week whilst checking
out various
> functions in Writelog. I have come to the conclusion all is not well but
maybe partly to
> do with some settings I put in a couple of years ago ago to reduce the
amount of
> Announces from mainland Europe.
>
> I connect to GB7BPQ (NMCLUS) and certainly notice that there are more
Spots available
> when I am not connected than when I am, also doing SH/DX lists more Spots
than I have
> received. Hopefully now the use of Announce for non-urgent traffic has
reduced for me to
> dispense with the filter although I still do see some getting through.
>
> This evening whilst disconnected I noted a 20 minute gap with no spots at
all which does
> seem a long time even taking into account it was a non-contest period.
Over the weekend
> it seemed very quiet even though there was 3 contests in action and doing
SH/C listing
> lots of nodes and users. I wonder if anyone else finds it as erratic or is
Cluster
> traffic much less than it used to be?
>
> Chris G3SJJ
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