[WT-support] WinTest/Other Progs

[Peter Bowyer]

I believe the stability of WT is in no small way due to the fact the
authors retain control of the codebase and don't provide mechanisms
for others to develop modules for unsupported contests. Supporting a
secure, safe API for third-party customisation is a really hard thing
to do.

By nature of its parentage, WT is bound to have more support for
European contests than it does for events from the US or other
localities. The developers add new contests in a controlled and tested
manner, which should be respected rather than criticised. If WT
doesn't support the contest you want, you can always request it - and
use another logger in the meantime. If there is a significant number
of your favourites missing, then perhaps WT isn't the logger for you.

Peter G4MJS

On 07/05/2008, Tom Taormina <tom at k5rc.cc> wrote:
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> I changed from many years of WriteLog to WinTest because of the more
> functional GUI and the fact that the network support between stations is
> rock solid. I am extremely disappointed, however, at the number of contests
> supported, especially state QSO parties. For 7QP, I had to reverse-engineer
> the Texas QSO Party by rewriting the .dta file and that was only partially
> successful. Aside from not tracking mults and not scoring properly, it would
> not let me enter 160M contacts because the TX QSO party does not use 160.
> Perhaps WT should contact the volunteers who write the specialty modules for
> WL and get them on the job. At the very least, there should be a program to
> allow the users to customize the contest overlay.
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> Tom Taormina, K5RC
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> From: support-bounces at win-test.com [mailto:support-bounces at win-test.com] On
> Behalf Of Steve and Judy
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 5:55 AM
> To: support at win-test.com
> Subject: [WT-support] WinTest/Other Progs
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> I have just started to use WT {5 contests} after previously using CT  for CW
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> The only problem that I have come across is that WT does not support  {or if
> it does I haven't found them} enough contests, especially in RTTY mode.
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> Apart from that the programme has worked perfectly and is easy to use.
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> 73  Steve   ZC4LI    etc.
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