[Dxbase] Two radios, two computers same log.

Mon Dec 11 05:55:32 EST 2006

Peter,
Your method is on target. DXbase is not going to work properly with two 
instances running at same time on different machines with both trying to 
access the same database.
Jack
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Dougherty" <w2irt at comcast.net>
To: "K8FC" <hamstation at k8fc.com>; "DXBASE" <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Two radios, two computers same log.
> At 07:10 PM 12/10/2006, K8FC wrote:
>>Folks, thought I would ask here for a solution before it becomes 
>>difficult. I want to use the same log here in the station on two 
>>different radios and two separate computers. I can open the log via the 
>>network from either computer. (I keep the log on a file server here in 
>>the shack) I would like to be able to use the log on two different rigs 
>>but not at the same time no SO2R just using two different rigs.
>> This is how I have DX Base set up at my club station, in a roundabout way. 
> We have two PCs and two radios; one is dedicated to high-power HF, one is 
> on an FT-847 100W HF/VHF/UHF/Satellite radio. I've fully installed DX Base 
> on each machine, as if it were just local to that one box, and set up all 
> radio control, etc. Once each iteration is working perfectly what I do is 
> decide which is the master station and which is the slave. In our case, 
> the high-power HF station is the master. That iteration of DX Base runs 
> normally. The DX Base folder is shared and permissions set to allow the 
> folder and share to be accessed by the other PC.
>> On the slave computer, I've mapped a drive to the DX Base folder, and I 
> use this mapping for the location of the wb2jsm.mdb file that I use as the 
> database of reference. So far we've only used one PC active at a time; I 
> haven't tried to write to the .mdb file from two different computers, so 
> try that at your own risk. This setup has been extremely reliable so far. 
> No Q's have ever been lost. When it comes time to backup the log, we 
> backup the files to the slave PC, so in the event the master's HDD goes 
> poof, we won't have lost much (plus I keep a copy of it offsite on my home 
> PC and Flash drive).
>> I really hope this app will someday be re-written to allow proper 
> server-client operation for large club environments.
>>>> Cheers,
>> Peter,
> W2IRT
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