[WT-support] WinTest/Other Progs

[Tom Taormina]

Points taken, however, if it is such a professionally controlled product;
- Why do I regularly have to start the program two or three times because I
get a windows error message?
- Why do I have to restart the program several times during a contest
because it loses control of the MicroHam MKIIR?
- Why did the Statistics screen suddenly start flying off the display screen
never to be seen again?
- Why is or was the WinKey speed control issue unresolved for so long (I
just got a new chip from WinKey that I have not tried yet)?

We are a terribly fickle lot as customers, however, we did pay for the
product and expect the manufacturer to respond to the program problems
promptly and to provide a contest module solution or tell us they have no
intention of expanding the contest base or allowing us to modify the contest
modules.


Tom Taormina, K5RC
-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at win-test.com [mailto:support-bounces at win-test.com] On
Behalf Of Peter Bowyer
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:29 AM
To: support at win-test.com
Subject: Re: [WT-support] WinTest/Other Progs

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
> and WF1B for RTTY.
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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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