[Dxbase] Usage question for packet sysops?

Thu Mar 24 09:51:54 EDT 2011

CC Cluster (the type of DXCluster I run at www.dxcluster.us) allows you to
say whether you want Skimmer spots or not. The Skimmer spots are only from
skimmer nodes directly connected to the dxcluster. I have 6 skimmer nodes
connected to my cluster in addtion to my own skimmer server east coast US.
That way you can get the skimmer stuff (or not) without it getting into the
cluster backbone. Therefore, bad spots which are a fact of life with
skimmer, are constrained to the node.l
Frank is trying to bridge two generations (old packetcluster with skimmer
nodes) by verifying skimmer spots against a set of rules and then posting
them to the cluster network. I know he had some fine-tuning issues but I
don't think they are a problem outside of testing anyone's spot duping
logic.
73
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal Software
www.abrohamnealsoftware.com
(540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER
Amateur Radio: K3NC
Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/
DXBase bug reports: email to cases at dxbase.fogbugz.com
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Fred Handscombe
<fredch57 at emirates.net.ae>wrote:
> Of course if W3LPL stopped his highly unpopular (outside US at least)
> SPAMMING with automated skimmer spots then the traffic would be a lot less!
>> Frank really is making himself unpopular and will be one to avoid calling
> in
> contests for me
>> 73 Fred
> A65BD
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Neal Campbell" <neal at abrohamnealsoftware.com>
> To: "Jack" <lennoxj at bellsouth.net>
> Cc: <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 5:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Usage question for packet sysops?
>>> >
> > Hi Jack,
> >
> > Based on 44000 spots generated during the ARRL SSB Contest, here are some
> > assuptions:
> > 1, Weekend spot trattic of 44K (which is way high, for instance CQWW RTTY
> > contest had 30K)
> > 2. Spots are a maximum of 80 characters so I took an average of 40
> > characters
> > 3. The total of week spots is the weekend spot load plus half of the
> > weekend
> > spots (again quite conservative)
> >
> > Given these assimptions, there are a total of 66000 spots at a total
> > character count of 2.6MB. With 4.3 weeks a month thats a monthly load of
> > 11.26MB, Yearly load is 135.2 MB
> >
> > Not such a factor for internet usage I hope?
> > 73
> > Neal Campbell
> > Abroham Neal Software
> > www.abrohamnealsoftware.com
> > (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER
> >
> > Amateur Radio: K3NC
> > Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/
> > DXBase bug reports: email to cases at dxbase.fogbugz.com
> > Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Jack <lennoxj at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm curious if any sysops track the amount of data that is sent to an
> >> individual subscriber to their internet cluster. If we assumed a full
> >> time
> >> connection during the most busy month, probably in months of large
> >> contests,
> >> how much data would typically be sent to a suscriber?
> >>
> >> My ISP announced that they are going to impose data usage limits and I'm
> >> just wondering what internet cluster usage might contribute to my
> overall
> >> data usage.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Jack
> >>
> >>
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