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Robert Bruninga wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Also, if you look at "phase 2", you could kill objects that
go offline.
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Can someone define "offline" in the Echolink sense?
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It means you are not running the Echolink software. <br>
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Each time you start up the program, it logs into the Echolink server
and reports that a particular copy of Echolink (i.e. callsign) is
connected to the Internet and available to be contacted. [This is
what makes your call show up in the list of stations that you can
browse inside Echolink.] <br>
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Every so many minutes, the local software contacts the server to
download an updated list of stations currently online. This also
confirms to the server that the program is still up and running.
This update rate is user-configurable (default is every 300 seconds)
and is a tradeoff between bandwidth usage and timely updates of" whos
on". I'm not certain, but I think the client software also does some
sort of periodic "heatbeat ping" to the server to confirm the client is
still online, even if the update rate is disabled (which is a user
option). <br>
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When you exit the software, (or Windows crashes or reboots) the
associated callsign will be purged from the list of active stations if
the server doesn't hear an update request within a certain time
interval.)<br>
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This causes you to be "offline". <br>
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Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com <br>
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