|
Registration
Information:
Club
Registration:
If
you are registering one of these programs for your club event,
please provide the CLUB call sign for password registration
as well as a call sign/e-mail address for a contact person so
that we can relay important upgrade information.
Previous
Registration or Lost Password:
If you have
registered the Field Day Contest Log or the Field Day Network
Log previously, you DO
NOT need to register again for a
newer
version. Please e-mail us if you have misplaced the password,
and we will look up your registration and forward the password
to you.
Installation
on Multiple PCs under One Registration:
One
registration entitles your club to run multiple copies of the
program on different PCs under one call sign at one Field Day location.
GOTA stations are the exception. You may run a copy of the software
under the club registration for the GOTA station even though
it has a different call sign. Please keep the password confidential
for club use only.
Field
Day Contest Log
This
Field Day Log is meant to be used as a stand alone version.
If
you cannot use the Network version, you can combine files from
more than one PC for submission by clicking from the menu options
File
> Combine or Restore File from Backup.
You
can use this Log in conjunction with the Field Day Network Log
to operate your GOTA station, but it requires a separate registration.
If
your map does not display properly, please try this:
From
your Windows Taskbar (XP users) click Start > Control Panel
> Display > Settings > Advanced. Under the General
Tab in the Display section you will see a choice for DPI Settings.
This must be set to Normal Size (96 DPI) in order for
the Map to display properly. Click Apply after selecting
your choice.
Field
Day Network Log
This program is almost identical to the
Field Day Contest
Log (see above) in appearance and performs all the same functions. The code, however, has been
modified extensively so that this program will function on a
local area network (LAN).
With the
Field
Day Network Log, you can have as many PCs
updating the same log file simultaneously as your LAN will support.
You
do not need a separate license for each PC that the program
is installed on. Please keep the password confidential
for club use only.
If your club is running a GOTA station, this station CANNOT
be part of the network. You must add the totals from the GOTA
station to your grand total at the end of the contest on the
Summary Sheet.
ATTENTION Windows 95
users: Please run the included
dcom95.exe utility BEFORE running setup.exe. See the Help/Read Me file for more details. (Running a dcom utility with later Windows versions should
not be necessary).
The Network version requires more RAM and processor speed for
optimum performance than the stand alone version. If your
group only plans on making 1,000 contacts or so, you can probably
get by with 75 MHz Pentiums. If
on the other hand you have serious competition in mind, then we would recommend at least 300 MHz machines with 64 MEG
of RAM for acceptable results with large databases.
Field Day Network
Pointers
This year there will be quite a few new groups using the network version of
the Field Day software. The following are responses to questions that I have
received frequently, and I'm listing them here as pointers:
- For the messaging features to work properly, the path to the log file
from the computer hosting the log should NOT route through the network. The
client's path must route through the network and begin with \\ (the \\ tells the
software that it is a client and which PC to connect to as the server). For
example, the server's path might be: C:\FD\FDLog.mdb and each of the client's
paths would be: \\Develop\C\FD\FDLog.mdb (assuming the
PC hosting the file was Develop).
- Because some versions of Windows can be particular about accessing files
in the c:\program files directory via the network, it is best to create a
separate directory outside of program files on the PC hosting the log file such
as c:\FD.
- Make sure that all PCs and your router or hub are on a UPS
(uninterruptible power supply)!
- A backup of all your data is written to every PC connected to the log
file every 15 minutes. Even if the PC hosting the log file has a catastrophic
failure, you can recover your log from any other PC on the network by clicking
File > Combine or Restore from Backup.
- Don't wait until the Saturday morning of Field Day to install and test
out the software on your network! If you haven't already done so, get the PCs
together before Field Day, hook them up and make sure that each PC is able to
access and update the common data file. Problems solved very easily in a relaxed
atmosphere can seem insurmountable when the clock is ticking.
Have fun, and we hope to work
you!
|
