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SpotCollector keeps going into yellow status

 

Over the past few weeks I've had issues with SpotCollector turning to yellow status for my sources. Sometimes it's all 4 sources that I'm using, other times it may be 2, or just a single source. I have been closing SpotCollector and reopening which has, temporarily, allowed me to reconnect to my sources.
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The yellow status seems to take place more on the weekends than during the week.
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Any idea what may be causing my SpotCollector to continue to go into yellow status?
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Tim
N9PN
 



Any idea what may be causing my SpotCollector to continue to go into yellow status?
Most likely because SpotCollector can not keep up with the number/rate
of incoming spots. I say that because you indicate the "yellow" status
is more common on weekends (when the spot rate is generally highest).

Look at the suggestions here:
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to optimize SC performance and consider reducing the incoming spot
rate by disabling skimmer spots on one or more of your spot sources
and in severe cases filtering spots on the cluster (e.g. disable
spots for US stations if you are not chasing VUCC or WAS).


73,

... Joe, W4TV

On 2025-04-13 1:06 PM, Tim Pierce via groups.io wrote:
Over the past few weeks I've had issues with SpotCollector turning to yellow status for my sources. Sometimes it's all 4 sources that I'm using, other times it may be 2, or just a single source. I have been closing SpotCollector and reopening which has, temporarily, allowed me to reconnect to my sources.
The yellow status seems to take place more on the weekends than during the week.
Any idea what may be causing my SpotCollector to continue to go into yellow status?
Tim
N9PN
 

+ AA6YQ comments below

Over the past few weeks I've had issues with SpotCollector turning to yellow status for my sources. Sometimes it's all 4 sources that I'm using, other times it may be 2, or just a single source.

+ That means the spot source has disconnected.

I have been closing SpotCollector and reopening which has, temporarily, allowed me to reconnect to my sources.

The yellow status seems to take place more on the weekends than during the week.

Any idea what may be causing my SpotCollector to continue to go into yellow status?

+ In the upper left corner of SpotCollector's Main window, there's the letter Q, followed by a colon and the number of spot about to be processed. Have you seen the letter Q rendered in red font?

+ On the Configuration window's "Spot Database" tab,

- to what is the "Combination Criteria" panel's "Maximum separation in time" option set?

- in the "Size Control Panel, how many Spot Database Entries are shown as present, and what number of "Spots per minute" is displayed?

73,

Dave, AA6YQ
 

I made some of the changes W4TV suggested. Specifically, I turned off all spots except N6WS and enabled a bunch of pre-filter options.
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I have not noticed the number in red after Q, however will keep an eye out.
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Maximum separation time is set to 60.
Spot database entries is 454000
Spots per minute since 23:00 Z is 1.4
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Tim
N9PN
 

+ AA6YQ comments below
Spot database entries is 454000
+ That's the problem. If you're using SpotCollector to identify activity patterns of needed DX stations as well as propagation openings from your QTH to those needed stations, then on the Configuration window's "Spot Database" tab configure the "Size Control Panel to prune the Spot Database hourly to a maximum size of 30,000 entries. If you're instead using SpotCollector only to identify active stations with whom a logged QSO would advance your progress towards the awards or personal objectives you are pursuing, configure the "Size Control Panel to prune the Spot Database hourly to a maximum size of 1,000 entries

+ Take care to not pre-filter spots based on their source, as doing so could deny you an early opportunity to work a needed station. Use the Band filter to hide low-band Spot Database Entries during your daylight.

? ? ? 73,

? ? ? ? ? ? Dave, AA6YQ

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