[WriteLog] Remote Internet log hints?

[Kevin Rowett]

Gordon,

Hope to work you in RU.  I’ll be part of ND2T team, operating remotely to K6MTU.

The term has used WL internet log server, now for several contests.  Very, Successfully.

WL Internet Server is very persistent, and QSO agnostic.  It will gladly accept QSOs from any contest, and forward those QSOs to all connected writing instances.  WL Internet Server keeps the QSOs in memory, so if you restart it, the server will forget all the QSOs.  However, when the server restarts, any and all connected log books will re-send all their QSOs to the writelog internet server, which in turn, will send al the QSOs back to all the other log books.

The net is - you have to work very, very hard to loose QSOs, or even DELETE A QSO.  The only way to delete any QSOs out of a log connected to a WL internet server is - stop the internet server. Restart all the log books that were connected to it, LETE the QSOs from EVERY logbook, then, and ONLY then, restart the WL internet server.

Like many, we often have practice QSOs in our logbook, prior to the start.  Because fo the above, it’s very difficult to get rid of those practice QSOs.  You can mark them as unclaimed. But, that doesn’t change the above behavior.

Worse, unless some care is taken, you can end up with QSOs from a different contest, in all the logs. 

Test and practice before the start of the contest. That will eliminate the issues I’ve noted.

Our radio setup is different, so we won’t be using the RRC boxes.

GL!


> On Dec 23, 2020, at 12:56 PM, Gordon LaPoint <gordon.lapoint at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have just setup the writlog internet log server and tested it. So far it is working.  I'm looking for hints to enhance its usage.
> 
> I installed the server on a linux box, which we access over a vpn, so the server is not open to the internet, just the local network as setup with openvpn.
> 
> I did setup a username/password file also.  We are going to use it for the ARRL RTTY RU contest, with three remote users to the n1mgo590 remote.
> 
> 2 of us have the RC-1101 and the third does not, should be fun and a first try at multi operator use of the remote.  We have setup time slots for each user, using WriteLog Control Site to connect to the remote radio, and the remote log server.
> 
> So far we have used the remote, but only as a single user in  a contest.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gordon - N1MGO
> 
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