[CQ-Contest] FD logging program

[Dennis O'Connor]

My experience has been with CT and TRLog... I have found that TRLog, run on
a dos machine (any version from 2.0 onwards to 5.0, not windoze faking it)
and networked off the 232 port is absolutely bulletproof...
An additional advantage is that the DOS autoexec.bat file can simply have
the name of the current contest inserted as the last line and whenever you
get a power interruption the machine simply reboots directly into the
contest without the operator doing anything except yelling at whoever is
responsible for power, "what happened to the !@#$%^&* power, dammit?"...

While all the computers are loaded with windoze on the harddrive, we simply
pop a DOS boot disc in the A: drive that  loads DOS (3.3 in my case) when
the machine is powered up... When the contest is over the floppy is popped
out of the A: drive and the machine reverts to windoze automatically...

Denny

Denny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Gilmer - N2MG" <n2mg at contesting.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] FD logging program


> 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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