This sounds like a great idea. I am surprised it is not already done via
tcp.
On 7/6/20 11:23 am, Philip Gladstone wrote:
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 <http://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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