[WriteLog] Re: Serial Numbers in Multi Operations

[Ian White, G3SEK]

bruce wrote:
>Now, why can't Writelog handle this? It's networked and certainly knows 
>that there was another Q with the number it's using. It certainly 
>should be possible to handle this although it might not be easy.

It is almost impossible to guarantee no duplicate serial numbers and no 
gaps... or at least, not without exchanging large amounts of fast, 
high-priority network traffic. Since that would risk the ability of each 
individual PC to service its own station, software authors quite rightly 
don't attempt it.

They are also completely aware that it's a non-problem anyway, because 
computerized log checking doesn't actually care about accurately 
sequential serial numbers. The same applies to duplicate QSOs.

The real problem is that the written rules for some contests are still 
pretending they *do* care about these things.  If anyone feels the need 
to complain, then complain to the organizers of those contests.


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73 from Ian G3SEK