[WT-support] state qso party logging

[Peter Bowyer]

WT supports, in the main, contests that the authors are interested in
supporting. That probably won't change.

Peter G4MJS

2009/2/28 Charles Wooten NF4A <nf4a at knology.net>:
> 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 ;)
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> NF4A
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> 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
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> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Cal Zethmayr <w4gmh at cox.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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 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.
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> 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.)
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> 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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