[WriteLog] Packet Window Information

Sun Nov 9 17:09:42 EST 2014

Hi Gary,

I knew that clusters do not spot by sections, but people do indicate the 
section in the comments section of the spot they send.  The cluster I 
was connected to sent what appeared to be a bunch of garbage in the 
packet terminal window.  It was actually good information but it was all 
condensed together with carrot marks separating the different information.

I was playing around by connecting to different telnet's and found one 
that's relatively close to me that sends out the information so I can 
read it easily in the packet terminal window.

Here's what the packet terminal window show's when I'm connected to 
N0VD-7  (not exactly as I did a cut and pasted and it changed a bit):

N0VD-7>
  21107.1  JR4OZR                 9-Nov-2014 
2200Z                                <AB1J>
  18145.0  9Y4D                    9-Nov-2014 2149Z  59 in 
Ohio                   <W4HLD>
  18160.5  W1AW/7             9-Nov-2014 
2200Z                               <N4YJF>
  28310.0  W4V                     9-Nov-2014 2200Z  veterans day spec 
event SC  <KI4LXH>
   7047.2  IW1AYD                 9-Nov-2014 2159Z 
RTTY                         <RM3DA>
   7010.0  BG9MFY               9-Nov-2014 
2159Z                              <SM5ATP>
  21280.9  KH2L                    9-Nov-2014 
2159Z                                <W9WI>
  18102.0  KB2DAB              9-Nov-2014 2159Z  JT65 Tu Phil 
NJ===>CA         <W4EG>
  21286.5  W1AW/P/7        9-Nov-2014 2159Z  heard in 
AL                  <N4GNO>
  21286.6  W1AW/7           9-Nov-2014 
2159Z                                <W9WI>
N0VD-7>

Here's what it looks like when I connect to K5NA.net:

N5ZC de K5NA 09-Nov 2204Z arc6>
AR17^1^21281.0^KH2L^09-Nov-2014^2204Z^ 
^WV4L^HB9DRV-9^KH2^15^SSB^27^64^0^K^VA^H99^~
AR17^1^50105.8^PP1RR^09-Nov-2014^2204Z^CQ 
EA9^EA8DBM^RN6BN^PY^6^SSB^11^0^0^EA8^^H99^~
AR17^1^7161.0^VE2CSI^09-Nov-2014^2204Z^Tks for Qso, 
73^EA7BZO^EA4RCH-5^VE^40^SSB^0^0^0^EA^^H99^~
AR17^1^14113.3^K0VVX^09-Nov-2014^2204Z^RTTY^KS0AA^K1TTT^K^20^RTTY^0^0^0^K^KS^H99^~
AR17^1^7127.0^CO8YI^09-Nov-2014^2204Z^ 
^AJ4YX^PY1NB-6^CM^40^SSB^8^11^0^K^FL^H99^~
AR17^1^7087.0^ON4PTC/P^09-Nov-2014^2204Z^Special Event WW 
1^ON7CFK-10^F5LEN-7^ON^40^RTTY^14^27^0^ON^^H99^~

The information is there, but not nearly as easy to read as the output 
of N0VD.

I'm curious if different nodes are running different software or if this 
is a setup issue with each individual node.  Something has changed with 
clusters and I'm obviously not keeping up.

Rich - N5ZC

On 11/9/2014 3:49 PM, Gary Senesac wrote:
> Packet clusters do not spot by sections, but by state.  Because of this WL does not treat any calls in the SS contests as "mults", they are just spots.  I use the AR User cluster software by VE7CC which allows you to set up alarms by state.  I do this, usually on Sunday, to help spot any missing states/provinces I still need.  But again, it just alarms on states, so if you need NNY the best you can do is set an alarm for NY and then check out what shows up.  Once you've worked the missing section delete the alarm to prevent further false notifications.
>
> Gary AL9A
> Sent from my Kindle HDX
>
> On November 9, 2014, at 11:19AM, Richard Thorne wrote:
>
> I've noticed during SS last weekend, that the packet cluster information
> in the packet terminal window was not very clean.  In other words it was
> a bunch of information separated by carrot marks.
>
> This makes it difficult to determine which section was spotted in the
> comment section.
>
> Is this the way the packet clusters are working now, or does it depend
> which node I connect to?
>
> Thanks
>
> Rich - N5ZC
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