[Wswss] rover logging

[Neil Jessen]

Boy, it's been a while since I roved during a contest.  But when I did, I always used a laptop and logged realtime.  I highly recommend realtime logging, especially for a rover!  When you are running multiple bands and multiple grid squares, it's almost impossible to remember who you worked on what band from which grid.  Also, if you paper log, then you have to go in, after the contest and input all that data from paper logs...what a pain.  Might get lost, coffee spilled on it, blown out the window...why risk it?

I am at work and cannot recall the name of the program I last used for logging.  I will have to go home tonight and look it up and then I will send you a direct e-mail.  Just so you know, a lot of the current logging programs support the VHF/UHF contests.

73,
Neil - N6VHF


--- On Sun, 1/2/11, Tom Carney <tomc at carneysugai.com> wrote:

> From: Tom Carney <tomc at carneysugai.com>
> Subject: [Wswss] rover logging
> To: wswss at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sunday, January 2, 2011, 11:17 AM
> 
> >     1. de W6OMF (w6omf)
> >     2. O rings (mike goshay)
> >     3. The Net 1296:
> (Ralph&  Marcy Berg.)
> >     4. The 75mtr. VHF/UHF Weak
> Signal Net: (Ralph&  Marcy Berg.)
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> > Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 11:57:01 -0800
> > From: "w6omf"<w6omf at cwnet.com>
> > Subject: [Wswss] de W6OMF
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> > Help... Friend going to participate in a Rover
> operation...
> >
> > What software are you rovers using for multi grid
> logging...
> >
> > Thanks de Larry
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Hi Larry
> 
> I use rover log in post contest mode.  IE, I paper log
> and then enter 
> the log into Rover log after the contest.  With my
> limited space in the 
> front seat of an SUV, carrying a computer along just isn't
> worth the 
> trouble.  Although I've never used the real time
> logging feature that 
> was the basic design center of the program.  Besides,
> it's free.
> 
> Please tell me more regarding your friends plans.  If
> both of us show up 
> at Mt Diablo, etc it's a bit of a problem.  I try and
> coordinate with 
> other rovers in the area so we avoid being at the same
> place at the same 
> time.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Tom K6EU aka K6EU/r
> 
> 
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