[WT-support] Putting the contest compilation out in the community?

[Ron Castro]

Hans:  You bring up a good point, one which was the subject of a continuing 
string on the Northern California Contest Club reflector regarding 
California QSO Party.  This is a major US contest, but the Win-Test team has 
shown no interest in supporting it. If there was a generic "US QSO Party" 
template, or some way, as you suggest, to allow users to develop their own 
templates, I would certainly use it for CQP.  While they're busy working on 
supporting the "1296 MHz All-Monaco RTTY Sprint", I'll be setting up N1MM 
for this year's CQP, hoping to beat my best year with 1,350 QSO's.

           Ron  N6IE
       www.N6IE.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hans Johansson" <sm0imj at gmail.com>
To: <support at win-test.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:28 AM
Subject: [WT-support] Putting the contest compilation out in the community?


> Hi all,
> I think this subject was up in a thread some time ago, but don't know
> if there was any response to it.
>
> Win-Test supports a waste number of contest, thanks to the team behind
> this effort.
> But apart from the large number of supported international contests,
> there is also a huge number of more or less local contests around the
> world. Many of these with locally developed logging tools or by using
> a "good enough match" from the existing Win-Test list of supported
> contests.
>
> I would like to use one tool, Win-Test, for all contests I participate 
> in...
>
> I have no clue how difficult it is to compile a contest set-up file
> for Win-Test. Maybe it's something extremely difficult and that's why
> it's kept within a limited number of individuals to perform. Or it's
> fairly easy but for quality reasons still kept within a limited number
> of individuals. Correct me on this statement...
>
> What about making it possible for the Win-Test community to compile
> set-up files for local contests and share the files for validation,
> correction and distribution? The whole Open Source community works
> that way and it looks like it works pretty well :)
> This does not violate the intellectual property of the software
> itself, it just add another dimension of the market for Win-Test.
> Quality assurance regarding Win-Test distributed set-up files stays
> within Win-Test, the rest is up to the community to quality assure and
> support.
>
> Am I completely out of bounce (oops, sorry, golf term for being
> outside the playing field)?
>
> 73's
>
> -- 
> Hans Johansson - SMØIMJ
> mailto:sm0imj at ssa.se
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