[ct-user] Networking CTWIN

[Ed Parish K1EP]

At 6/9/2004 12:57 PM, robp at jfcspb.org wrote:
>I am a network Engineer and fully understand networking and have been a ham
>since I was 8 but this is my first time using CT and I have been chosen to
>set up the network for Field Day. 
>
>I guess the question is on a basic level what do I have to do / change in CT
>to make the workstations talk together, 

CTWin has networking built in.  You would start CT with something like:

\Program Files\K1EA Software\CtWin\ctwin.exe  -enet  FD

where FD is your FD.bin file.  I usually set things up in a batch file to make it easier.

>Do I have to point them to a common drive,?

Each computer runs its own copy of CT and keeps its own .bin file.

>Do all computers use their own dat file?

The .dat files are the multipliers, e.g. FD.dat and since each computer has its own copy of CT, it will have all of its own .dat, .cty, .cfg, etc. files.

For networking, don't forget to edit or create the multi.cfg file on each computer.

>Do the workstations talk so that if I am using several stations that may at
>different time work the same bands, will it tell me of dups worked from the
>other stations?

As long as the computers were networked when they worked the stations, each computer will have a copy of the entire log.  Logs get out of sync when the network is not up.  You can take all the computers off line and merge the .bin files with the MERGE.EXE command, but usually people don't do that until after the contest.

>Can I set up a workstation that will display realtime stats for contacts?

There is the summary window, multiplier window, and the rate window that will show most of those things.