[WT-support] Win-Test 2.20.0 is out!

[Pete Smith]

The important thing to me is that Win-Test and the other loggers should all be able to talk readily to common scoreboards.  For example, if contesting.com chose to implement a scoreboard for major contests, they ought to be able to write it to use data in only one format, regardless of which program it comes from.

I had missed Fabian's post to the xml4results list - that is great news.

During the current test, N1MM Logger users are in fact using an outboard application to grab the data from their database, format and transmit it to WA7BNM's scoreboard test page.  Integration into logging software, from the user's perspective, will just make it easier to get lots of users on board.  That's my interest -- I have no technical qualifications, just want to see it done in a way that best helps popularize contesting.

73, Pete N4ZR

At 07:27 AM 11/19/2005, you wrote:
>On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:06 -0500, Pete Smith wrote:
>> Take a look at http://www.hornucopia.com/xml4contestresults.html
>
>Thanks for the info, Pete.
>
>Is it really necessary for the developers to implement this directly
>into the application itself? Sure, that would be the ideal, but Fabian
>DJ1YFK has written a Win-Test score 'grabber' (which will now be updated
>to reflect the change within Win-Test to transmit the info real-time in
>UDP frames). 
>
>I see there are some postings to the list which are 'archived' in a
>simple manner on the above URL. DJ1YFK writes:
>> Btw: I will implement the XML format to my WinTest score grabber
>> (http://fkurz.net/ham/wtscore/) , also a display of the last X QSOs,
>> QSO-rate would be trivial to implement...
>
>As I say, the ideal would be to have the XML support directly in
>Win-Test but right now I imagine there are more important features/tasks
>that the developers are working on. If there are third-party solutions
>to do the conversion to the XML format, I think that'd be fine.
>
>The advantage of the Win-Test developers having the current system is it
>allows the end user do what they wish; it isn't limited to one system.
>So the overall ideal would be to have the system to allow transmission
>of data via UDP frames *and* to directly support the XML format. That
>way if people want to do other stuff with the UDP frame data, they can
>do. 
>
>73,
>
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