[WriteLog] WL Spots question

[Kevin Rowett]

Another solution…”front’ yoor spotting with VE7CC, and use that app to connect to multiple clusters (that provide RBN spots).


73, K6TD

> On Nov 30, 2020, at 1:52 PM, Randy Thompson <k5zd at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> I was connected to the WC2L node for the weekend.  I think I may have gotten dropped two times.  No idea why, but you notice it when the spots stop rolling in.  I would just reconnect and keep going.  Maybe WL needs an option to try and reconnect a few times when the connection is dropped.
> 
> Randy K5ZD
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2020 12:54 PM
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> 
> Jamie NS3T
> 
> Just wanted you to know I had the same issue.
> 
> I used the NC7J and W3LPL RBN nodes during the contest.  I also got random "Disconnected" notices from each node.  In other words they (NC7J and W3LPL) both dropped out.
> 
> It may simply be because there were so many users on either of the nodes (this is of course a major contest) that the system overloaded and dropped out randomly.
> 
> I have had no disconnects from RBN's happen during other times with hours of use.
> 
> Unless someone else has a perspective on this, that may be what happened.
> 
> 73
> 
> Keith W3KB
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WriteLog <writelog-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Jamie Dupree via WriteLog
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2020 12:08 PM
> To: writelog at contesting.com
> Subject: [WriteLog] WL Spots question
> 
> I don't use spots very often, so maybe there is a simple answer to this question.
> I don't send out spots.  I just receive them. During CQWW CW, I kept getting disconnected from various Telnet Skimmer connections.  It would happen sometimes after a few minutes, sometimes after an hour or a couple of hours.  My conservative estimate is it happened at least 30 times.
> This wasn't an internet issue on my end as far as I could tell.  When the spots stopped, I was using the same internet on the shack computer to look up various Telnet connection information.
> Is there some kind of instruction that I need to give, or box that I need to check to keep that from happening inside WL?
> Thanks.
> 73 Jamie NS3T
> 
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