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

[hank.k8dd]

Agreed!
I believe the top three US QSO Parties are CA, FL and PA, 7QP, NE QP and MI
not far behind.
A lot of NA contesters 'grew up' on CT and Win-Test is like CT on
steroids - and
that is a good thing.   And I would think that it would go a long way
to get a lot
more support in NA for Win-Test!

73
Hank K8DD
MI QSO Party Committee



On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Ron Castro<ronc at sonic.net> wrote:
> 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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