[TRLog] Two Contests under Win98

[NR1DX]

My thinking was that it would be easier to keep track of your single band 
score, create a summary sheet , etc., for the single band entry. Then do a 
merge of the two files for your final log submission.....

I'll also say this so Tree doesn't have to. For now we all have to treat 
this as an "unsupported feature". Until someone does this under actual 
contest conditions we won't know if it is a useful way to work two contests 
at once or not . If anybody trys this and things lockup , data is lost, 
etc., we cant go and bad mouth TRLog for it here. For those of you who do 
try this let the rest of us know what you find. I for one don't expect Tree 
to make program changes if there are bugs as a result of trying two 
contests at once. The program is complex enough as it is and the number of 
users who might actually work two contests at once I suspect are few and 
far between. I'd much rather Tree be thinking about a real Windows based 
version of TRLog instead. This would give us access to USB port expansion 
for laptops in a more predictable fashion as well as unlimited serial 
ports. (sorry Tree, but I'm not going to give up on this one ~8^)

Also another point about my experience / experiments I almost always run 
TRLog from a DOS window under WIN98 rather than a reboot to DOS or in 
MSDOS  MODE (which effectively reboots to DOS anyway) . I run all contests 
out of the LOG directory and then transfer the contest specific files to a 
separate directory for posterity after the contest rather than set up a 
separate directory at the beginning of the contest. This habit is a hold 
over from my WIN95 days with TRLog where running under a WIN95 window with 
separate directories produced unpredictable behavior at times.

Dave
NR1DX

At 11:02 PM 11/27/00 -0800, Alan Kaul wrote:
>Dave wrote:  (re two WINDOWS to run TR)
>
> >>>This might be a good way to run two seperate logs for the same contest.
>i.e. where you are doing a single band effort but want to play on the other
>bands during the "off hours". You could set up two differently named .CFG
>files which were otherwise identical, i.e. CQWW40.CFG and CQWWALL.CFG. This
>in turn generates two seperate log files CQWW40.DAT and CQWWALL.DAT.
>
><<<<
>
>Not a good idea ... because keeping two separate logs and then only submitting
>one band for your entry will screw up the contest-checking-software.  Other
>stations who work you on whatever band YOU DO NOT  SUBMIT A LOG FOR, will 
>claim
>you for credit, but they will then get docked points when the logs are
>checked -- because your log is for some other band.
>
>Not only that, I believe most contest sponsors require that if you work more
>than one band, that you submit logs of all contest QSO's.
>
>I think it would be legit , however, to enter two different logs if you are
>using two different sets of call letters (i.e. ur call on one log, and a club
>call on the other).
>
>73 de alan
>
>Alan Kaul, W6RCL, LaCanada, CA
>w6rcl@amsat.org , http://home.att.net/~alan.kaul/index.html


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