Thread: Scouting Software?????
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Unread 01-05-2008, 22:48
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Re: Scouting Software?????
We used 6 Dell Pocket PCs (actually five and a laptop as a sub) with bluetooth. You really don't have to have software...just use Pocket Excel. If you know how to use Excel with Visual Basic and Macros its not entirely difficult. We can probably hook you up with a sample sheet too. You make one simple sheet for the PDA, then you have a master sheet on a laptop that can gather all the files using bluetooth. The master sheet we had calculated averages, standard deviations, etc. It even had a automatic drafting list that helped us compile our draft lists. If you already have PDAs...using Excel is a free, reliable, and fairly easy way to do electronic scouting.

Yeah....if you want a Computerized Scouting system, we can most likely get you ours. The only requirement is that you have six PDAs with Bluetooth (unless you setup wifi) that have Pocket Excel on them and one "bluetoothed" laptop. This system would also work for laptops...really, anything with Excel on it.

Jamie, 234 Scouting Lead
Last edited by Cartwright : 01-05-2008 at 22:58.