[Dx4win] DX Spots Window

[Mel]

You might consider using something other than K1TTT. It's an extremely 
busy cluster, best to spread the activity around. Using telnet you will 
receive each spot exactly once. With a Web server, you are receiving 
them in fixed batches. If activity is low, you will receive spots 
multiple times. If it gets busy... more than 25 per minute, you may miss 
some. I would turn the question around... I would is ask is why use HTTP 
(DXSummit)? It's a sub-optimum solution. The only reason I can think of 
is if you are behind a firewall such as at work where telnet access is 
restricted... but I wouldn't think that is the case for most of us. Who 
gets to operate at work? ;-)

On 2011-08-15 17:55, Mark K3MSB wrote:
> The "25 Spot" is refreshing as expected.
>
> Why should I use a telnet cluster instead of the server?
>
> Which cluster do you (or others) recommend?   The K1TTT cluster seems to
> have much less activity on it than DX Summitt.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark K3MSB
>
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Mel<ve2dc at videotron.ca>  wrote:
>
>> No, it's the 25 spots that refreshes. You can make any line auto refresh by
>> appending  a | and the number of minutes.
>>
>> However, you should *NOT* auto refresh large numbers of spots as this would
>> be an inconsiderate waste of the spot server's bandwidth.
>>
>> If you want history, initially download 1000 spots then switch to the 25
>> spot feed.
>>
>> Frankly, unless you are behind a firewall, you should use the telnet
>> clusters not the web server.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2011-08-14 01:11, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Mark K3MSB<mark.k3msb at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>
>>>   How do you have your DX4WIN configured so that DX Summit updates?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It just works "out of the box", always has.
>>>
>>> Do you have the latest DX4WIN.TCP file?
>>>
>>> Which of the three DX Summit entries did you select?  I believe only
>>> the first one auto-updates (100 spots).
>>>
>>>
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