To Gary, ZL2IFB: I can see that because you are so active that it would be
helpful to make monthly files. It seems to me that an easy way to do this
is that on the first of the month, the file could be renamed to show the
month it is for, and then open a new clean file to continue the data
collect
I use a combination of the ALL.TXT breakup techniques. I keep it yearly as I’m
not quite so active as Gary. My ALL.TXT file ran to 1.2 TB last year. I use a
PHP app I wrote that suits me. It allows me to search by year including the
current year. About 0100 I have a scheduled copy of the cu
Hi Roy.
I am very active on FT8, clocking up about 900 FT8 QSOs per month and
monitoring open HF FT8 subbands all ZL day while I work on the adjacent screen.
My ALL.TXT typically grows to more than 30 Mb per month e.g.:
Early each new month, I manually add the previous month’s
Only some are due to lack of internet.
USB GPS receivers are now approx $12 USD on Ebay. I have tested a few and
they work fine with NMEAtime2. Which is none simple software.
The message could suggest what to do for both internet connected and
off-grid users. But really, to keep the message short
Thanks for the education. Before you started discussing the ALL.TXT file I
did not know it existed. So I decided to check it out and see what it was
all about. Here are some things that I found out about it in my case.
The file in my computer was nearly 24 MB in size. I double clicked on it
and it
Island people can always sync from know short wave time standards. WWV, CHU.
I send jtx msgs but they still not connect. Let them figure out that setting
their time correctly will help increase their contacts.
My 2 cents...again.
Regards and 73s
VE3FBZ
London Amateur Radio Club
www.larc.ca
you are right it does. On the other hand do you really want people to be
off on time?
You could consider instead of b0rking out -- if there is no internet, warn
and go on.
Then you have three groups:
a) groups of people that understand that any system without correct time
settings should not be
On 26/06/2019 10:55, Roeland Jansen wrote:
I did not look at the patches Mike sent but:
https://time.is/
gives you how good/bad the time is. If you start up: do check like
this and refuse to go on if the timeskew is too large.
Add a link how to fix in the message and you force people to fix
I did not look at the patches Mike sent but:
https://time.is/
gives you how good/bad the time is. If you start up: do check like this
and refuse to go on if the timeskew is too large.
Add a link how to fix in the message and you force people to fix it.
(not that people read notices)
just my b
I’ve not yet seen the results, but your this approach really looks like
something which could bring a substantial progress regarding the timing issue.
Reason why I am supporting a warning message is that, besides field days, I saw
dozens of OMs/YLs who are not aware at all that system time o
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