[WT-support] state qso party logging

[hank.k8dd]

And Writelog supports pretty near all the state QSO parties.


On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Charles Wooten NF4A <nf4a at knology.net> wrote:
> Yep.... NA and CT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cal Zethmayr [mailto:w4gmh at cox.net]
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:49 PM
> To: support at win-test.com
> Cc: Charles Wooten NF4A
> Subject: Re: [WT-support] state qso party logging
>
> Then I guess the question is....does ANY other software support the QSO Parties as well as all other contests?
>
> Cal Z
> W4GMH
>
> ---- Charles Wooten NF4A <nf4a at knology.net> wrote:
>> 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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