[CQ-Contest] FD logging program

[Jim Idelson]

Mike,

Your story about WriteLog isn't what we experience here in our multi-single 
operations. Once we get the Windows networking configured right, we never have 
a problem getting a machine back on line after a problem. We have had some 
occassional system hangs, but getting the machine back up is really easy, and 
the log syncs up immediately. It is totally cool to have all four logs reliably 
identical at the end of the contest.

73,

Jim

[CQ-Contest] FD logging program 
Mike Gilmer - N2MG n2mg at contesting.com 
Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:21:50 -0700 (PDT) 
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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