There are a (small) number of WSJT-X users who have difficulty reporting their spots to pskreporter. Some of these are in "difficult" areas of network connectivity (e.g. Marine Mobile) and I suspect that the UDP transport is losing most of their packets. The general loss rate seems to be around 1%-2% which is somewhat higher than I would expect, but it is not unbelievable either.
It is also difficult to diagnose these sort of problems as the packets appear to leave the PC running WSJT-X and not arrive at my server! PSKReporter was never supposed to be 100% reliable, but there seem to be a lot of people who think otherwise.... In an effort to improve the situation, I have now stood up a TCP listener that might help. The protocol is identical -- the only difference is that you send the same messages as before over a TCP connection to report.pskreporter.info port 4739 rather than over a UDP connection. There is no extra framing required as the messages already contain a length code. The listening server should be able to support enough connections. It will close a connection if an invalid message is received. Is this change something that could be implemented? Also, currently, you send a bunch of packets at the same time (on the five minute expiry). You could send them as soon as they get "full" rather than waiting. Thanks Philip
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