[WT-support] qso recording and SW quality

[Zoli Pitman HA1AG]

Tonno et al, 

I agree with you that adding a voice recorder in WT would simplify your post-contest fun, but I would like to emphasize that while it doesn't directly lead to improvements to your score it still creates risks. 

In my opinion the extremely fast and interactive (which is very welcome!) development of WT creates a situiation where there is less and less time for regression testing or verification of the already existing functionality. This creates a major risk to the SW itself in terms of stability and reliability. See the recent posts... they are mainly about CAT on legacy equipment and Telnet client troubleshooting... and these are the core functions of a contesting SW IMO. 

In brief what I wanted like to ask to be very considerate with requesting non-core functions as they can create a threat to your own score at the end of the day. 

73, 

Zoli HA1AG






----- Original Message ----
From: Tõnno Vähk <Tonno.Vahk at gildbankers.com>
To: support at win-test.com
Sent: Friday, November 3, 2006 3:44:29 PM
Subject: RE: [WT-support] qso recording



 
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well, it is really nice to be able to send out rare contest 
QSOs later to friends or correspondents as files and to retain them in the 
collection.

 

I think incoporating recording in WT would be a terrific 
function and I look forward to it. Would be able to get audio clips with QSOs 
much more easily than from RecAll for example..

 

 

73

es5tv




From: support-bounces at win-test.com 
[mailto:support-bounces at win-test.com] On Behalf Of Zoli Pitman 
HA1AG
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 12:03 PM
To: 
support at win-test.com
Subject: Re: [WT-support] qso 
recording









>> I was reading the help, to find how to record qsos with 
Wintest??
>> Anyone knows where can I find the infos???

> We 
are still thinking to add an "QSO" recorder in WT. This is on our 
> todo 
list but we have other things to do before. I hope that we will 
> have 
time this year for...



IMHO this is unnecessary. There are 
enough perfectly suitable tools available optimized for this purpose. I would 
opt for WT sticking to its core role and having a very robust and optimized code 
instead of having a miriad of bells and whistles used by a subset of the users, 
making the code less robust, increasing the probability of fault introduction 
and making troubleshooting more difficult. 

73, Zoli HA1AG

ps: One 
of the best ops ever, W4AN used to say the contest ends at 23:59... He won WWCW 
in USA from GA with this principle... So why record a contest anyway ? :) 







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