One million spots

[KL3RR]

Thank you Alan for your time and effort in creating this great piece of software SparkSDR.

Eugen / KL3RR

[KL3RR]

Oops, can't see it too well.... Link to larger version: https://i.imgur.com/Oo0Es5d.png     (also attached)

[ahop...@googlemail.com]

Hi Eugen,

congratulations and thanks for the kind words .  I wonder what the spot count record is in a single spark run.  Perhaps I should maintain a count between runs or maybe PSKReporter can provide this.  I am always amazed at the spot counter at the bottom of PSKReporter.  I have long meant to add better stats to spark.  Perhaps I could set up a server to log Spark users totals and produce a leader board or maybe query the PSKReporter api.  I have considered downloading from PSKReporter to spark but am cautious about adding to the the sever load.

73 Alan M0NNB

[KL3RR]

Looking at the screenshot closer I realized that I must have accidentally bumped the WSPR frequency on 40m (only had 4 spots in the month or so it took me to get to 1 million overall).  I fixed that, and now am up to 70 spots on WSPR 40m in the last 30 minutes..  Due to that error, I've decided I must keep this instance of SparkSDR going for at least another million...

I'll be back with another post when at 2 million spots, in another month or so... :)

Eugen / KL3RR

[Mike G4RAA]

Very impressive Eugen! I wish my network was stable enough for SparkSDR to stay up that long.

Alan - looking at Eugen's JT9 spots reminds me - what is the latest version of WSJT that worked for decoding JT9? I've been meaning to point SparkSDR to an old version for JT9 decoding for ages...

73

Mike

G4RAA

[Ward Cunningham]

I see that I have over three million spots on 20m FT8 since the last restart. I'm also showing an ep6 count of 6. This use to be in the thousands before I move SparkSDR to a new PC one switch away from the HL-2. Folks on this list helped me get there. I leave it pretty much alone to run the app. 

I save raw spots as they come over the websocket where I have automated a bit of tinkering to keep that running. This simple graph as been enough to notice and diagnose a solar flare on July 8th. http://ft8.ward.asia.wiki.org/assets/pages/spark-records/traffic.html?days=3

Thanks and best regards -- Ward K9OX