[WT-support] Marconi Memorial Contest

[Luc Favre]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernhard Buettner DL6RAI" <wintest at dl6rai.muc.de>
To: "Win-Test Support List" <support at win-test.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:33 PM
Subject: [WT-support] Marconi Memorial Contest


> I did Marconi Memorial Contest last weekend using Win-Test and came up
> with a few ideas. First of all, the program worked nicely for DJ5CL,
> DL6RAI and DK0MN with no problems at all. However there is always
> room for improvement. Maybe you can comment on this.

===> F6HJO/P : So did I, with no trouble at all

>  a) The QTH locator field has some hidden characters. As it is being
> processed in INSERT mode, one can shift characters out to the right
> of the field and they become visible again when deleting a character
> in the first six positions. Maybe it's a good idea to process this
> field in OVERWRITE mode?

===> F6HJO/P : I fully agree with this idea. Either Overwrite mode end/or
truncate to 6 positions

> b) It would be nice if one could search by QTH locator. Often that's
> all you have at some point in time and you'd like to find out if a
> station with this locator has been worked before - if not it's probably
> worth waiting for him to sign his call.
>
> Ideally, putting the locator in the respecitive field would bring up
> all stations in the Check Partial Window that match this QTH.

===> F6HJO/P : Would be nice. You very often get only the locator and then
wait for the call...

> e) Please support DTB or SCP files with more than one QTH locator
> for a single callsign. Stations often use different QTHs during the
> year and it is advantageous to list all of them.

===> F6HJO/P : I would say : 2 locators for a songle call sign. One for the
blank call signe, one for the callsign for the same with /P.

73 to all and TH to the developpers

Luc/F6HJO