[WT-support]M/S

[Filipe Lopes]

I understand about the serials! Thank you!

Filipe
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurent HAAS - F6FVY" <f6fvy at free.fr>
To: <support at win-test.com>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [WT-support]M/S


> Hi again
>
> Filipe Lopes a écrit :
>
>> tell me something: If station 1 is working for example CT1ILT and 
>> station2(mult) is working G0RRR both are giving out the same serial 
>> number right? Should the mult station wait for a serial number or is 
>> there a feature in WIN-TEST that gives to the mult station the following 
>> Serial number? we lost lot of points in IOTA contests and other contests 
>> when using CT because of this. We sent the same serial for 2 stations! 
>> example CT1ILT received 4 and G0RRR received also 4!
>
> This is a FAQ and has been already discussed here...
>
> There is no provision for a serial number reservation or such things in WT 
> because it usually needs a central server to manage etc... And even with 
> such complicated things, it can fail ! I don't even talk abt having a 
> crash or failure of the central server...
>
> To be short : It is not a big deal to send by chance the same serial 
> number because :
>
> 1/ The important thing is having the sender and the receiver to log the 
> same serial number, whatever this number is. Having some gaps or 
> duplicates in the numbers is totally tolerable. The correction robots only 
> check if sent and received serial do match.
>
> 2/ You can always "re-adjust" the serial number on the fly on your 
> machine, if you want, in WT by using the Edit / Edit serial number menu.
>
> 73
>
> Larry - F6FVY
>
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