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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I am here to regretfully
announce that the third.aprs.net and fourth.aprs.net servers that I personally
own and operate will no longer be supporting the CWOP program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Allow me to give a brief
history on events, so you understand my decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I am a ham radio
operator. The APRS-IS network was built by hams, for hams.
CWOP, non ham users, are guests on our network to get to MADIS.
CWOP users account for 1/8 of the total station count on APRS, the other 7/8
are non weather ham radio users. The traffic is disproportionate though,
as CWOP users take up a full ¼ of the bandwidth passing thru the servers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Back January of last year,
the previous group of server sysops that had ran the servers for CWOP since day
one abruptly pulled support for the CWOP program one Friday. No excuse
was given beyond that it was in the best interest of both parties. This
was a devastating blow to CWOP.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The core group of server
sysops were contacted about this, and we spung into action to help get CWOP
taken care of. It required extensive work to get this to happen, as we
had only three servers at the time. In less than 48 hours we
managed to get a 4<sup>th</sup> server online, and had started moving users
over.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Shortly after this, I
observed that the method that the stations were using to submit the data was
horribly wrong for the APRS-IS network (does not follow the spec), knowing that
as the load increased, we would have problems. I started writing a white
paper, which I have sent to several of you on request, that outlined everything
a developer needed to know to write a program to use the APRS-IS network
without causing undue network load. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>During the development of
this white paper there were 8 if I recall folks that were involved with the
“fine tuning” of it. At the time, we wanted to set the host
name for CWOP users to use as cwop.aprs.net, so later we could move you guys to
your own dedicated network of servers (thinking ahead). There were also a
few other items that we wanted addressed, such as the polling time, and polling
interval. Dave Helms, one of the CWOP administrators
refused to accept some of the items in the draft. After several
attempts to talk reason into him, I just said the heck with it, and let it sit
in my temp directory, never finished. No one else picked up the ropes to
keep going, either, and everyone had the last version of the draft! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Here’s the
problems… The core sysops have been begging Dave to get the developers to
fix their software. Dave, fearing that developers would pull out of the
CWOP program with the changes the core was wanting to be made, has had very
little done about this. When most of you have problems with data loss, or
difficulty in connecting to a server, it’s because the policies that the
core put in place were never implemented by most of the software developers
because Dave never passed it on to them. We can only operate a network so
long as the software –you- use is set to work with it correctly.
So a year later, after suggestions have been made, most of you are
still using software that is broken, or have incorrect settings in place to
work 100% correctly with the servers. And we’ve been asking over,
and over, and over for these changes to be implemented, as even as far back as
October we started noticing a detrimental impact on the network, but nothing
has been done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jump to today, here’s
the problems that still exist that are causing server sysops problems and are
causing you problems due to the fact that most of the CWOP programs don’t
follow the rules:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The lion share of you have
software that uses your PC clock for polling time, meaning our servers have to
accept thousands of stations every 5 minutes then sit relatively idle for 4
more minutes. This with the addition of new Christmas gift stations this
year has been causing countless crashes, data loss, and other issues that
the server sysops have been working on. Each server can only accept
50 backlogged connections at a shot, and frequently port 14580 way exceeds
that. So it’s caused instabilities in the network, as networking
queue times go very high when this happens affecting HAMS as well as
CWOP. We’ve asked this to be fixed, and heard silence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Polling interval is another
issue. MADIS takes the data from the APRS-IS network via Findu only every
15 minutes, but we still have stations that were sending data in every
minute. Keep in mind, you –don’t stay- connected to the
server, you connect, drop off, and disconnect. To Russ
Chadwick’s credit action was finally taken just here recently about these
stations, and we’ve banned them at the server level, but that still
doesn’t prevent them from going to connect, and tying up a server slot
every minute. 5 minutes is the standard that amateur radio operators have
used on APRS for probably 10 years now. Why that wasn’t just hard
coded in programs, I don’t know, but again, this is another issue
we’ve been asking over and over to get fixed, and it yet is.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Round Robin DNS still
doesn’t work for the most of you. Over ½ of the CWOP users use
third alone. Many of the programs simply only look up the IP address of
the rotate.aprs.net when you first load the program or connect the first time,
and then it –never- goes back to ask if the IP has changed, or check if
there is another one for load balancing. Again, asked over and over for
this to be addresses with the developers, still hasn’t been.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I am by no means saying that
every piece of CWOP software is broken!!! Numerous apps –do it
right- as the developers of those programs have been in this forum, seen some
of our technical posts about problems and corrected their code. But the
amount of developers who seem to care about doing it right is very few, and the
largest CWOP applications that the bulk of the users use, simply do not follow
the rules.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>So who suffers? We all
do. As the server sysops, we have to sit, being sucker punched every 5
minutes right now. You do as not all of your weather data makes it thru.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>APRS-IS is the internet side
of a VHF radio system on 144.390mhz that does packet radio. Weather is
only a small fraction of APRS’s overall functionality, so as system
operators we have to be sensitive to this, not to allow CWOP to cause harm to
the amateur radio operators that rely on this for emergency communications and
safety of life traffic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The servers are ran by a 100%
volunteer group of system operators that in the case of the core servers, are
all ran in datacenters. Fourth alone is a 8 core Xeon box running VMWare
ESX server with Windows 2003 running the fourth virtual machine on that
box. I spent $4500.00 for that server to –SUPPORT- cwop. I
also donate about 6 meg of tier1 quality backbone bandwidth every day to this
program. Unlike Findu, where Steve gets support from his users of that
website, the server sysops, who without there would be no network to use, we
get zero support from the user community. That’ after thousands of
dollars in hardware and hundreds of hours of time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>So how was I repaid for my
generosity????<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Requests to
make changes to the client software went unanswered, allowing things to spiral
to where they are now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Every time
anything happens to the network, the server sysops are automatically crucified
for doing something wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I can’t
think of the last time anyone stopped to tell me how much they appreciate what
I do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>So it all boils down to this
morning, when I posed the message at 10:24 am to Seth about the standing of the
software problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Shortly afterward, I go this
from Dave Helms:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dave,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I,
too, have absolutely no interest in revisiting the events of January-March 2007
(publicly or otherwise). I am willing to support the notion of segmenting
CW traffic to improve stability of APRS-IS, to include developing a plan for
implementing the cwop.aprs.net round robin server name. In last
year's crisis mode, I agreed to contact virtually all CW and Ham weather
station operators to facilitate the switch from Tier2 servers to Core servers
included on the rotate.aprs.net RR server domain. In the future, I will
rely on encouraging individuals to read the CWOP News Page to advertise the RR
server name change, and through routine client application upgrades rather than
making individual email contacts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As
we move forward, I request one thing... that we not make the "CW'
(non-Ham) volunteers second class users. Their contributions are equally
valuable to NOAA as validated Ham Radio users who send weather reports to
APRS-IS and NOAA. If weather traffic must be (temporarily)
throttled back to preserve APRS-IS stability, then all weather contributions
should be equally reduced, Ham and non-Hams alike. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Going
forward, we need to find a way to add capacity to the APRS-IS to take the load
of the expected growing number of users. Hence, we need to develop an
architecture that will allow exploitation of both Ham Radio APRS-IS server
resources and non-Ham servers which may be available. These non-Ham servers and
bandwidth may be donated from government, universities, and private sector
groups. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Finally
after a year, Dave concedes to allowing us to start using CWOP.APRS.NET.
Well the problem is that it’s a day late, and a dollar short. He
further more says it’ll only be a news post on a website, and for when
folks update software. Well if the last change to rotate is any
indication of how well that will go, there still are 800 of you using the old
servers to this DAY. So if he’s not going to help promote it,
we’ll have a network that is in shambles here in the next 90 days due to
load. I just don’t think Dave understands the gravity of the
problem. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Then
the straw that broke the camel’s back was in the second paragraph.
Insisting that ham stations also be reduced to that of non hams. Well
first off, ham stations are generally sharing a very limited amount of
bandwidth on 144.390mhz (1200bps). From peer pressure alone, no ham will
beacon weather more than every 5 minutes without hearing about it from other
local hams. We have a system in place that works well, using nothing but
peer pressure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
fact that he’s insisting hams back off, on their own network, that was
built by hams, really offended me, and so far most of the hams’
I’ve shared this with seem to agree. Dave and the NWS pay NOTHING
for what we do on the network. How dare he tell us what to do on our own
network. CWOP are GUESTS on our network. Dave has in the past shown
callous towards the hams, never this blatant, but I’ve seen it in other
messages. This disgusts me. This would be no different than me coming
into your house as a guest and telling you can only spend 5 hours a day
watching TV.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>So
I write Dave back a –very- long message, and at this point I’m very
upset about this. I lay blame for the problems we have right now where it
needs to be placed, squarely on his shoulders. He was the reason the
white paper was given up on, as if it wasn’t Dave’s way, it was no
good. Yeah, I’ll admit my message to him was long, and rather
blunt. I was direct with him, and factually telling him it’s come
to a point where change has to occur, or the network will change around him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Well,
here was his response to that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dave,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In
the time your spent wiring this email, you would could have instead been making
progress on the a white paper your said you would complete last
year. Don't blame the client developers for something you knew that
was needed over a year ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dave
Helms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Accusing
me of not finishing a document that he opposed?!!?!?!?!?!! Excuse
me? Draft 3 was what would have gotten published had he not objected to
the hostname. The rest –is- done right now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Well
if the NWS employee that is supposed to be our liaison to the developers is
taking this attitude towards me, with the thousands I have spent to support
CWOP, I hereby pull my official support from the program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
realize this will be a heavy hit for CWOP, as I take a full one half of the
server capacity with me. I am greatly sorry for that. The
last people I wanted to hurt were the ones I was out to help, but with Dave
Helms at the “Helm”, it’s over for me. I cannot
continue to be badgered, beaten, ignored, then finally blamed for it to begin
with over a volunteer operation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If
any of you would like to talk about this more, I encourage you to send me a
private e-mail at <a href="mailto:dave@aprsfl.net">dave@aprsfl.net</a>.
I’m sure this message will get me banned on this forum, so I’ll not
be checking back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I’m
glad I’ve been able to help up till now, and I really am truly sorry for
going out this way, but I just can’t go on with this type of pervasive
attitude…. Let alone one that is so callous towards the folks that this
network was built for, ham radio operators.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dave
Anderson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>KG4YZY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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