Re: LF: WSPRnet problems

[John Langridge <kb5njd@gmail.com>]

I didn't really want to get into these details but the fact is that many of us have made efforts to contact Bruce over several months to no avail.  That's not intended to be a criticism - real life gets in the way sometimes and that's ok.  I, and others, are focusing on the fact that we need a solution.  Resources in the form of money, hardware and brainpower have been offered by a number of people and have gone unacknowledged for a very long time.  So this was not a "shoot from the hip" response.  During the last major outage in December (not as bad as this one, mind you), there was talk about having discussions about the future of the system and where it needs to go.  To my knowledge, that was the last time there was any mention of any talks about the direction of the system. 

The good news is that this system will still feed the WSPRnet site data in much the same way that WSPRnet feeds the PSKReporter site.  The difference is that WSPR will feed  the new system first, before passing the data on to WSPRNet which passes the data on the PSKreporter (in theory).    SO WSPRnet does not go away, it just ceases to be the "bottle neck" for those who choose to use the new system.

Hopefully this clarifies things.  I am not the point person for this venture.  I am only a frustrated user.
73!

John

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Tobias DG3LV <DG3LV@gmx.net> wrote:

Hi John !

The website owner(s) can be found at :

http://www.whois.com/whois/wsprnet.org

There is a lot of information on how you can get into contact with them. It would be better hamspirit to help them solve the(ir) problems than to think about establishing alternatives. Unless we know more exactly about the true nature of the problems at wsprnet.org we cannot be of help.

73 de dg3lv Tobias

Am 24.01.2016 um 17:38 schrieb John Langridge:

Good morning,

As most ops already know, the WSPRnet website has been down more than up
over the last several days.  There do not appear to be any updates to
the status posted any where, at least nothing current.  Its almost as if
a "take it or leave it " attitude is now the status quo.  Its a free,
volunteer-driven web site that I pay nothing for, so I can't argue.

An alternate data warehousing and rendering system and website is being
developed and tested by a father/son team but its not ready yet.
Details will be forthcoming once appropriate. as well as instructions on
the new data entry point.

In the mean time, if you find spots in your WSPR console RX window that
are noteworthy, please be sure to post them or send me a direct email
with the details.  I use this information as part of my daily 630-meter
band report.  As you can imagine, the WSPRnet outage has complicated the
data gathering and reporting.

Thanks for your assistance.  73!

John KB5NJD / WG2XIQ..