[WT-support] Win-Test and contest numbers

[Nick F5VIH/SV3SJ]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Bob Wilson, N6TV <n6tv at arrl.net> wrote:

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> You mean numbering per computer, rather than per band?
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Yes, numbering per station. This will ensure to have increasing serial
numbers per station. The duplicate numbers that there will occur, are not
causing a problem.



> Getting back to Win-Test, the serial no. situation is not just a problem
> at big multi-multi's; the SO2R operator attempting to interleave two QSOs
> can also get into the situation where the serial no. sent on both Radio 1
> and Radio 2 is the same, but the second QSO entered will get logged as if
> QSO number + 1 was sent (when it was not).
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This race condition can be avoided if one adopts the following trade-off.
First log the call and then send the exchange (with the insert key).

This will not ensure sending numbers in sequence but it will solve the more
important issue of sending one exchange and logging a different one. There
are shortcomings to this, like not being able to use ESM and that both
stations sharing a numbering series have to do the same thing.

73, Nick
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