[WT-support] state qso party logging

[Charles Wooten NF4A]

They would sell MANY more copies of Win-Test to both US and DX stns if they
supported the state QSO parties...guess $$$$ or Euros don't matter ;)

 

NF4A

 

From: support-bounces at win-test.com [mailto:support-bounces at win-test.com] On
Behalf Of Bob Wilson, N6TV
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:11 AM
To: support at win-test.com
Subject: Re: [WT-support] state qso party logging

 

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Cal Zethmayr <w4gmh at cox.net> wrote:

Is there an overlay or template I can use for various STATE QSO Parties?

The only state QSO party I see supported in the contest drop down lists is
Texas.

Just about every one of our States in the US is having a state QSO party
this year and for many of us hunting for the 3,000+ counties this is one way
to get those contacts.

Any suggestions on how to use this great win-test program for state qso
parties?


Many of us have been asking for the same thing for many months.
Unfortunately, the Win-Test developers have decided that state QSO parties
will not be a priority, for various reasons.

See this <http://www.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2008-May/075730.html>  post
by F6FVY in the reflector archives for the complete response.

Here is an excerpt:

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Laurent HAAS - F6FVY <f6fvy at free.fr> wrote:

1/ Win-Test has *not* being designed to allow users or third-party
programmers to write their own contest "modules", or to modify the
existing ones.

2/  Apart from very few exceptions, we
don't intend to add every QSO party today, mostly because there are
very numerous and rules are pretty hard to include in our current core
(ex : Rovers with multiple Q depending on his location, etc.).  In short,
the TX QP has been written by accident and is not so well supported.

3/ Our choice to add such or such contest, is today much more oriented
by its nature (how many entrants, history, rules modifications along the
years, published format of the Cabrillo log file and rules, etc.)

 

We know that the lack of supported QP is currently a major bump for US
users (at least, the "casual" contesters) to adopt Win-Test. On the
other hand, we always claimed we wanted to favor WT features to help
users to seriously compete, rather than the number of supported
contests, or - more generally - the number of users.


73,
Bob, N6TV

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