The cost of operating DXA on K7C was inadvertently high (about $10K) due to the server crashes generated by the extraordinary demand (42,000 logged in DXers, 20,000 logins every day, 40 million total hits). The extra cost was mostly the extra satellite time to modify DXA remotely from Kure and to monitor the server. Watching DXA from the remote site is vary expensive due to the overhead of the browser. The actual cost of uploading the radio log is negligible (about $0.001/QSO using Inmarsat). I expect the next deployment of DXA on a big DXpedition will add perhaps $1K to the budget, almost all of which will be set-up, monitoring, service communications, etc. When it becomes a reliable part of the equipment, it will add negligibly to a DXpedition budget.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Wylie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 11:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] will this help? > > How much did that cost on K7C Bob? > > Tom GM4FDM > (part of the VU7 team) > Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, [email protected] This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
