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----- Original Message -----
From: "W0UN--John Brosnahan" <shr@medinaec.com>
To: "Bob McCormick W1QA" <writelog@w1qa.com>
Cc: <WriteLog@contesting.com>
Sent: January 22, 2003 9:08 AM
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Converting a disk to NTFS
>
> >
> >If a disk sector becomes bad (ugh!) ... and your data
> >is on it - doesn't really matter what file system you
> >are running. (A RAID based logging computer?! <grin>)
>
> Thought about raid! But what I am doing and didn't mention
> is building two identical systems that will be networked together
> with the second system logging in parallel. Sort of a
> hot standby! Guess I could add a KVM switch and if the
> main computer fails just dump the keyboard, video, mouse
> over to the backup system!
>
> This is the same logic that got me into trouble a decade ago
> (but at least this is cheaper). I had a 781 and an Alpha 87A
> and we won a couple of plaques so I got worried that if we
> were on track to win and something died I would be out of
> the race. So I added a second 781 and 87A for backup. Then
> we started doing some preliminary 2-radio stuff and I realized
> that if one of the setups died we would be back to the old
> days of a single radio. So I added a THIRD 781 and 87A
> as backup to the first two!
>
> With W0UA doing most of the operating we won about a
> dozen plaques in the ARRL and CQ DX tests. Not too shabby
> considering we only entered about 25 contests during the 1990s.
> So we had almost a 50% win rate. Of course I was doing
> mostly single band stuff during that period and choosing the
> band that was forecast to be the hottest for that part of the
> sunspot cycle. Still, from Colorado, it was not too shabby.
> Multiple plaques on 10, 15, 20 and 40. Figured we didn't have
> a chance for anything on 160 or 80--but the higher bands were
> winnable from CO under the right circumstances and with
> big enough stacked antennas.
>
> WriteLog is just the next step (after our move to south TX) to
> upgrade the station.
>
> 73--John W0UN
>
>
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