Kim, This has been a "bug" in DXBase for years; the one sure fix is to download VE7CC www.bcdxc.org/ve7cc/Ver3/V3Help.htm Get that up and running and then connect DXBase to it. Once you have it up and running, in the Config tab, go to Ports/logging program. Set the node to Telnet. In the top middle, check "Enable Telnet". In "data sent to logging program, I have all checkedbut two of them (DX Tab format for live spots and DX Orginators QTH. Also have the Dat sent to cluster checked to Ignore BYE from loging program. Make sure you fill in user information (just leave Usual DX Cluster blank (you are using VE7CC-1).. IN DXBase in the Internet window, set IP Host to 127.0.0.1:7300#localhost CC User That should be in the list of hosts, just scowl down to it. In the interface block in the same window, I haveConnect Interface at program startup checkied, and keep alive timer checked and set to 15 mins. Other checks are up to you. Never had a disconnect since I started using it. Good luck, Dick, K8ZTT On Thursday, December 28, 2017, 1:54:50 PM MST, Kim Elmore <cw_de_n...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: I'm finding that after a while my Internet Packet windows is losing it's connection and I have to restart it. The Keep Alive timer is set for 15 min. I've shortened that to 10 min, but I'm not convinced that's the problem I'm seeing. When this happens, I simply see lines of "Keep Alive Sent" (or something like that). If I check the connection with a SH/DX, nothing happens, so I know the connection is no longer active. This has happened from time to time in the past, but it's getting more frequent and annoying. What else might I set on my end to keep the connection from being dropped or simply becoming what amounts to dormant? I've been using the W4NJA node, so I suppose it's also possible the problem is on that end, someplace.
MX & HNY, Kim N5OP -- Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP SEL/MEL/Glider, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL) /"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." //– Attributed to many people; it’s so true that it doesn’t matter who said it./ ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dxbase@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dxbase@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html