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Unread 31-01-2008, 17:30
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Re: Networked Scouting System

Last year, we used my own system I built with a wireless router, a few Ethernet cables, laptops, and a surge protector. My system works REALLY well for keeping archives. Any Wi-Fi web browser should work (The Opera DS browser works good, iPhone/iPod touch should work great, the PSP web browser... uh... works.)

In my opinion, if you roll out your own system, it doesn't need to be anything fancy: a page per team is vastly superior to a computerized system. It takes much fine tuning for a database system to overcome the benefits of hand written notes on paper. (I think I am getting there with my program, but it is still hard.)