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Excessive QSTs

 

I have a noticed an increase in the amount of un-necessary QSTs on the Public Ratflector. It has come to the point where it is difficult to have a conversation with someone without being interrupted by unattended stations sending bulletins that have no value. I have resorted to filtering them out in order to keep my screen clear. If you need to keep your internet connection alive, simply send a location report every ten minutes. It will not print any text in the chat window. Please keep all other QSTs to a minimum (I don't need to know the temperature at your location). If your station is unattended, please set your status to Unattended using the selection box in the lower-right corner below the Stations list.


Thank you in advance,

de Patrick (N3TSZ)
 

On 3/29/2015 7:10 AM, n3tsz@... [d-rats_group] wrote:
I have a noticed an increase in the amount of un-necessary QSTs on
the Public Ratflector.
<snip>
Guilty, Your honor.
If you need to keep your internet connection alive, simply send a
location
report every ten minutes. It will not print any text in the chat window.
I need to figure out how to do that. The QST workaround was suggested to me by Dan Smith, but it was mainly to verify what the issue was.

As I had left the QSTs on before with no one mentioning that they were excessive or disrupted, I did not realize the impact.

I was not aware that the location report could be used as an alternative. I do not know if the ISP kill timer will allow 10 minutes of idle. I will have to test that out.

Regards,
-John
 

On 3/29/2015 11:29 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
On 3/29/2015 7:10 AM, n3tsz@... [d-rats_group] wrote:
If you need to keep your internet connection alive, simply send a
location report every ten minutes. It will not print any text in
the chat window.
I found that setting under the QSL message type list. Using the GPS message.

10 Minutes seems to be keeping the internet connection alive.

Two fixes are needed for long term:

1. The d-rats program needs to be fixed to detect the disconnection and possibly just reconnect after notifying the user.

2. A keep alive message needs to be set up between the ratflector and the d-rats program that does not get relayed by the ratflector.

Regards,
-John

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