Running 2 radios in a serial number contest brings up some issues about
serial numbers.
There's no way to write software such that ALL the following assertions are
true:
1. There are no duplicate sent serial numbers in a single-PC setup
2. There are no duplicate sent serial numbers in a multi-PC network
3. All logged serial numbers in your log are in consectutive order when
viewed chronologically.
4. The serial numbers in your log exactly match what you sent on the air.
5. There are no missing serial numbers in your log.
6. you operate two radios such that situations occur where you have sent two
serial numbers to two different stations but neither is QSLd yet and might
never be.
7. when you don't complete a QSO (i.e. you don't get a QSL of a sent
exchange), you don't log it at all.
8. PC's in a multi-PC network contribute QSOs to the log while the network
is down, and the QSOs are merged later.
You may accuse the author of non reponse, and you may call it a bug, but you
can't change the facts. WriteLog's design is such that assertions 4,6,7,8
are true. Assertions 1, 2, 3, 5 are false. You may want your logging
software to make a different set of these true, but you are never going to
get any software such that all are true.
Wayne, W5XD
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