Hi everyone and Happy New Year..
I was just wondering why,We can't get our Clubs past year race results posted on the CU site as it is in the Year Books...It would be rather nice to see how ourselfs and others have done in the past year and not have to wait soooo long for our year books to be done..I have NO Idea what Work would be involved here so please those involved don't get upset with me,I'am just wondering why this has not yet been thought of or done....Thank You!

By Bshuba on Tuesday, January 01, 2002 - 01:43 pm: Edit

Also the others here that don't live in Canada and don't get our year book can see the results of Who they have been talking with...

By Evert on Tuesday, January 01, 2002 - 04:29 pm: Edit

Mr. Shuba.

You are asking a lot from the CU..
Who Of the management could possible arrange such things .

The CU has an agreement with the programmer of the Winbird race program., that all clubs using the program,
Will be entitled to place the results on his webside,(world wide)If they meet certain criteria, and can use these same results for the CU website.
But looking at the crummy CU Site, do you think that they can manage to do that?

Now every club should go after the Winbird program for the next season, it is free to download, and when completed next season, will download most E, clocks right into the program, Currently it will do this only for the Tipes clocks.
Last season we had a great time in our combine, any club using it could E.Mail the results right into the combine results.
No room for errors by the second party, to screw up in copying them over..Also for the yearbook. Easy to send to the CU what goes in the yearbook, without copying them all over into the CU forms.

It was faster than you can write the results for one race on those forms.
With little or no promotion from the CU, I doubt if too many clubs are willing to start to use this soon.
Despite the time saver it is for , clubs and combines, but also for the CU office to write the yearbook entries all over again.
If requested, I can help you with the setup in your computer, just click my name for the e.mail address.
E.V.

By Bshuba on Tuesday, January 01, 2002 - 07:19 pm: Edit

Evert
Yes I do see problems with this right off.-THERE ARE clubs that don't use E-Clocks like ours for example..I thought as we send all of our results in to the CU soon after the season that this can be done...But yes someone would have to do this,and it would be a hell of alot of work,That and I feel sorry for the poor person that may make a mistake while doing his best,someone won't be happy with some thing I'am sure....Thank you for letting me know Why this has never been done.I always wondered now I know,Wasn't expecting nothing from no one.....

By Anonymous on Wednesday, January 02, 2002 - 03:37 am: Edit

!!!!

By Tommakowecki on Wednesday, January 02, 2002 - 09:59 am: Edit

Bill S. This new sofware for calculating the races ......can certainly be used with the manual clocks. Info enttered the same way as it is now.
If all clubs in Canada used this new sofware; what you want can be accomplished and very simply and easily///that is the joy of this new Winbird program.
Ev. Is there any chance that the TauRis Electronic clock will be read by the program? This year! It is very similar to Tipes. As a matter of fact....My own TauRis has on occassion come up with a Tipes dispaly on my TaRis clock. Seems that they may have both used the same software to run their clocks.

By Evert on Wednesday, January 02, 2002 - 02:21 pm: Edit

Hi Tom.
The programmer is working on all E.clocks this winter.
It is like you said, It does not have to be E.clocks, All birds can be entered manually, out of all clockings.

By Bshuba on Wednesday, January 02, 2002 - 07:25 pm: Edit

Tom M // Evert
Thank you guys I'll bring this up at our next meeting.Will we be able to post these results on the CU web site ?,even if not ALL clubs do the same.?

By Eastfield on Sunday, May 19, 2002 - 10:40 pm: Edit

What is happening with the Winbird program? Which CU director is responsible to follow through with the developers and update the membership? Soon another season will be over and it appears nothing has been done to promote the use of the so-called official program developed for the CU.

By Evert on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 10:49 am: Edit

Hi Clarence.

Who the Rep. For the CU, FOR WINBIRD is almost a secret
.
I have not seen much promotion from their side for the program.

We have received several updates lately, and are working with Vers. 10.4 right now.
Many of the E.Clocks can be imported directly now in this version.
I don't think that there is any program like this, what can integrate from E.Mail. all clubs results directly into combine results.
Completed combine results can be directly send back to the clubs.
It will take some time that some clubs will realize, the time saver this program is, special on the end of each season.
When results have to be send in for the yearbook.
An update can be downloaded, from the webside in SA.
Which by the way is listed on the CU webside.
After each race, I receive as much fun from doing the results, as I do for seeing my birds return from a race.

I think that the promotion from the CU, should be more detailed, as to what this is all about, and show the benefits, when using the program are.
But They just do not have the experience, to help any one on the way, or do not like to stick their necks out.
They should have some quidelines, as to how they want us to use it, when reporting for the yearbook.
So they can directly use it for publication, without retyping the works.
But it is hard for the blind to lead the blind, I suppose.

I have tried to help some clubs at times, but find they are not prepared to try it, or some clubs in some combines do not want to co-operate, and than it is hard to see any benefit, in the use of it.

In our combine we use it since last Youngbird season, and would not go back to the previous programs.
Hope this will attract some interest, in the clubs and give it a try,
In Sport.
Ev.

By Bill on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:12 pm: Edit

Hi EV,Clarence. I did put down on this site that i was the rep for the C.U. and was going to try to keep the winbird program going. As you know Ev i was the one that emailed the gentleman in south africa to find out exacly what was promised to him monitary wise, Yes you are correct it is hard to do anything with it if your club or combine don't want to use it so what do you do in this case, I certanly don't hide my head and say nothing i do try to speak to the C.U. body when someone has a problem and to see if it can be resolved, Also Ev you are the only one so far that sent me any sugestions so what do's that tell you i know what it tell's me that people can't be bothered for some reason or another

By Tommakowecki on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 01:05 pm: Edit

Very few people are prepared to make changes and go on unknown territory...the rest shall follow later.....Not much unlike pigeon races. It sounds like a great program and once they get the Tauris downloading in place...I hope our club uses it.

By Jgrant on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 05:25 pm: Edit

Hi Guys

I have a stray bird. Cu 2002 13008 Mealy Red. Does anyone know who this bird belongs too? Found in Courtice, Ontario. Thank You

By Bill on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 06:06 pm: Edit

Hi Jim...That bird is regestered to the Oshawa general rpc c/o h yassein. bill butterfield.

By Jgrant on Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 06:52 am: Edit

Thanks Bill
I wasn't aware it was a gold band bird, at least it is worth $5.oo to the owner. Must belong to someone in the area.

By Brad on Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 10:17 am: Edit

To Evert

Good Morning Ev

I downloaded Winbird last week, intending to do results in both it and RMS-10 for this old bird season. Unfortunately the manual wasn't available and it's a slow process trying to figure it out by guessing. If you, or someone else, has a copy of the manual, and it's not too big, maybe you could e-mail me?

The other thing is I talked to our combine race secretary, and he believes that Winbird prints unadjusted arrival time, and there's no way for him to integrate that with the RMS-10 he's using. Briefly looking at the program it appears that you can customize reports, do you know of any one who has successfully used results from one in the other?

Thanks for any help you can give me
Brad