[Dxbase] Two rigs, two computers

Tue Jun 1 21:06:28 EDT 2004

Hello,
Our radio club in the NY Hall of Science (a demonstration station in a 
youth-oriented museum) recently acquired DX Base and I'm in a bit of a 
quandry on how it should best be set up given a temporary and somewhat 
unusual condition.
Right now we have two completely separate operating positions, each with 
its own radio and computer. One radio is an FT-847 (which now works 
beautifully under DX Base - thank you, Jack et al!!), and the other is an 
older Kenwood TS-440 without computer control. Each operating position has 
a PC, and somehow I'd like to be able to log to a single file.
Eventually, we will locate the two positions close enough together that one 
computer will work to control them both, and we will likely acquire a new 
computer-controllable radio to go with it. Until then, however, is there a 
way to make this whole process a bit easier? I'd like the operator on the 
non-PC-able radio to be able to enter QSOs into the main log, rather than 
have a second full installation running for the time being. The positions 
are much too far apart to use the same PC.
What we are doing right now is using N1MM logger set up in multi-multi mode 
for day-to-day operations. Every so often I export an ADIF file and import 
it into DX Base, but that's hardly the solution I need. There's gotta be a 
way to do what I need, but I'll be darned if I can figure out how. What say 
everyone?
73 de Peter (W2IRT)
w2irt at nac.net
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