[Dxbase] Two radios, two computers same log.

Mon Dec 11 07:58:15 EST 2006

I have almost the same setup.
Same mapping to a drive
I find though, that making an entry into the log on Computer 1 (main unit) 
does not show up on Computer 2 (slave) immeadately.
I normally use a dedicated Contest Program for contesting.
But occasionally, I'll just chase a few friends to give them points and I 
really don't care about scoring.
I also agree that for us multi radio, multi interest ops, a full network 
server/client shared log would be advantage.
I don't know if there would be enough users to make the complicated code 
writing cost efficient.
The full server/clients (note: PLURAL) would also help to save people that 
pit of the stomach knot of realizing too late they hadn't backed up their 
database.
----- 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 8:52 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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