[DogParkList] MacLoggerDX cluster activity

John E Bastin, K8AJS jbastin@sssnet.com
Sat, 20 Apr 2002 07:10:23 -0400


At 17:53 -0400 04/19/2002, Don Agro wrote:
>
>Yes, MacLoggerDX sends a 'return' every 10 minutes to keep the session alive
>- this works with some DX Clusters but not all.

Gee, I've never had trouble with my connection dropping, maybe I'm 
just lucky...:-) The only time my connection drops is when the node 
goes down, either crashes (very seldom) or maintenance and software 
updates (annoyingly often).

>
>There may be a better way to prevent timeouts during low activity periods...

Well, if the owner of the node doesn't complain to me about the 
excess 'line noise' I guess I won't worry about it.

73,
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