I'm a return veteran contester with lots of wins using the old pencil log with
a dupe sheet.
I've tried various new programs attempting to gain a level of comfort so I
might consider a serious entry into some contesting again. You should
appreciate that I'd hate to feel the pain of getting
I beg to differ with whatever input you've received John. A modern, powerful
windows pc is a great investment for ~$1K. It's not going to crash during a
contest, running any of the top Windows contest loggers and will give you
loads of enjoyment the other 95% of the time.
73,
Barry N1EU
At 01:08 PM 06/01/10, John, W1QS wrote:
I'd use a basic mission critical PC with a 386/486 processor, DOS
and CT to run the logging process without connection to the Internet
during the contest. CT runs with the K3. The more recent contesting
software might be ok but Windows is buggy and may
John,
I have to agree with Barry, but I will lower that $1k price by a lot. I
have found that Windows 2000 and Windows XP are quite stable. No
glitches and certainly no Blue Screen of Death on any computer worth
it salt. Yes, Win95, Win 98, and Windows ME did have unstable quirks.
Right
Hi John,
Welcome back to contesting :)
I have run a fair amount of 24-44 hour tests in the past few years running a 5
year old XP box, N1MM and a pair of K3's in SO2R without incident. The XP box
that I use is not used very much and my daily workstation is a Mac. Actually
the PC is tiny Dell
One
thing I would recommend is to run your log/db on a USB flash
based device, this way if your PC decides to act up or even
worse the drive dies then your log will be safe.
Errr, not if the flash drive dies, unless you meant to use the flash as a
backup. With no moving
parts, flash
On Jan 6, 2010, at 10:08 PM, Gary Hinson wrote:
One
thing I would recommend is to run your log/db on a USB flash
based device, this way if your PC decides to act up or even
worse the drive dies then your log will be safe.
Errr, not if the flash drive dies, unless you meant to use the
No actually I meant use the flash for the actual live log.
Flash based drives are far more reliable then traditional platters.
True, probably.
Flash has a life expectancy for ~10K read/writes far less
then what would be used in a 24hr contest :)
Is that so?
I have had many platter
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