In a message dated 11/14/00 4:13:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, Rich Mitsuda
writes:
> I've noticed that your club downloads your
> race results very quickly and I wanted to know how your club does this.
> The POC is a great club, but it takes us forever to download the
> results!!!! Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Rich,
>
> The hardest part of posting results is the data input. If you use software
> the results are already entered at the end of the event. Once you get home
> you just enter the results into your webpage publisher and upload to the
> website. I use AutoX by Rob Gregg and fully endorse it. All you need is a
> computer literate person willing to spend a little time to set it up and
> train the T&S people. We purchased our software in 1998 for $175.00 and
> received several old unused computers donated to the club by our terrific
> event attendees. In almost 2 full years of approximately 25 to 30 days of
> autocrossing per year we have never had a failure due to the computers or
> software. Amazingly we leave the PC equipment in our club RV to suffer high
> heat and humidity! Only our JACircuits timer and photo eyes get an air
> conditioned house to stay in mainly because we can't afford to take the
> chance of them failing or getting stolen or vandalized.
>
> You see, I'm the poor sucker that got assigned to maintaining the records
> for our club. After several late evenings of inputting the results and
> points I knew there had to be a better way!
>
> John V. Taylor
> Webmaster and Assistant T&<S Chief and future T84 FM autocrosser@ <A
>HREF="http://www.gulfcoastautocrossers.com";>Gulfcoast
> <Autocrossers Ltd. Website</A>
PS: Link to AutoX T/S website is:
http://www.autox.kawvalley.net/
JACircuits:
http://www.mich.com/%7ejacircts/
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