[Trlog] Watching an old friend slowly die

[VE6JY Don Moman]

I'm surprised the network is that much of a problem.  It sure hasn't been
like that here - the last m/m here was for the RAC WInter Contest and we ran
7 daisy chained very mongrel and very different computers and the there was
0 failures or even glitches. And this pretty well the way it has always
worked for us over the years. I have gradually replaced any of the 386's as
they seem a bit slow for fast CW in the m/m effort so have mostly 486s and
lower Pentiums (some with W98) and they just all seem to behave fine. They
have to - I'm no computer expert at all.

73 Don
VE6JY

On the other issues, I will always have or keep something around to run
Trlog on.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av at contesting.com>

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>
> Our TRLog multi-multi setup becomes more problematic every time out.
> The serial port daisy chain is now ALWAYS the LAST thing we get
> running, and the FIRST thing to fail and require a computer change in
> the middle of the contest. We have had serial port daisy chain issues
> to overcome in ALL of the last five outings. We have had as many
> Windows/daisy chain/serial port contest affecting failures as all
> other types of failures combined, including amp, antenna, and radio
> blowups.