Re: [yfk] questions about yfk log

Hello Tommy,

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:21:54PM -0500, Tommy Williams wrote:
> The QTH field for each QSO appears to be constrained to 15
> characters in the database and 13 characters by the actual perl
> code. None of the city names in my area fit here, states are
> handled via the remarks section, so I was curious to know what
> exactly is the expected use for the field.

The QTH field (and maybe also the name field) should indeed be a little
longer. I am planning to give the QSO entry form a little redesign; I
guess 20 characters would be a reasonable size?
 
> to round out the questions... Concerning the remote logging portion
> of the documentation. Can multiple yfklog instances write to the
> same database instance without any adverse affects (like duplicate
> primary fields). Being what it is yfk log is easy to set up and use
> on older hardware and older hardware is abundantly available for
> events like, say... Field Day.

As Philippe remarked, this can be done indeed, at least to a certain
degree. The log tables are not locked when YFKlog writes on them, but
I don't know if this is of practical importance. Playing around, I
never faced any problems when I tried to save two QSOs in two
instances to the same log table at the same time. Even importing two
ADIF files at the same time in two instances worked fine here.

Note that this is probably not the case for SQLite.

73,

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