[CQ-Contest] FD logging program

[Mike Gilmer - N2MG]

My one, weekend-long, experience with Writelog (we had 
another nickname for it) was in a fully networked, 
6-station, multi-multi environment and was less than 
thrilling.  Most PCs locked up at various times, and, 
after rebooting, were, as often as not, invisible to 
the network no matter what we tried.  After a half-
hour or an hour (or two), poof!, they would simply 
reappear on the network.  Magic!  There were many 
things about Writelog that I liked.  Its networking 
reliability was not one of them.

Anyway, another "good" reason for networking at field 
day is the gee-whiz attraction of which most hams are 
guilty.  That is, assuming one can get it going and 
keep it going...

73 Mike N2MG


On Mon, 22 April 2002, "Ron D. Rossi" wrote

> 
> >>>"jljarvis" said:
> > 
> > Ease of setup of networked operation in Writelog
will save us 
> > setup and debug time.  
> 
> To be fair it "might" save us time. We don't know
that yet, since it is the 
> first year. Last year it was <1 hour including
running cables from no 
> computers to having all five booted and talking to
each other (up to 200' 
> distance between CPUs).
> 

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