The spots that you get from a cluster come in as a steady stream, in essentially real-time. Most, if not all, cluster systems on the Internet are interconnected so the old concept of connecting to one close to you to pick up locally spotted DX doesn't apply. Some clusters do have filtering on them so that they only display spots from a particular country, though I don't think that the one on K1TTT does that.
I'd turn your question around and ask why you'd want to use a web-based one with only periodic refreshes? The one possible reason would be if you were behind a firewall that blocked access on the ports required for use by the cluster nodes themselves. While I don't normally use the K1TTT node I do use it as a backup for when my "primary" one goes down. I've never found that it's missing spots so I'm not sure why you are having issues. I had initially suggested that you use the K1TTT node because I use that myself (occasionally, as noted) and I know that it's well connected with a steady feed, but you might want to pick another one and see if that seems to work better for you. I'd just pick one off the list that seems to be close to you. As I mentioned, most these days are very interconnected and you should have no trouble receiving spots. On the other hand, if you're happy with the spots from DX Summit then I can't really think of any reason to change. On 8/15/2011 5:55 PM, 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<ve...@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.k3...@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). >>> >>> > ______________________________________________________________ > DX4WIN mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > -- > 73, > David, K2DBK > http://k2dbk.blogspot.com > http://k2dbk.com > twitter: @k2dbk ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
