[WT-support] Future implementa​tion of SO2V & PSK Support ??

[Jim Balls]

Not fully abandoned N1MM as i still need something for unsupported contests and modes in Wintest.

Wintest feels much slicker, and runs smoother on my basic laptop, N1MM is fine until the QSO’s mount up then it seems to struggle, especially when the spots are flooding into the band maps.

I really like the feel of Wintest and it’s a great shame the developers don’t have enough time to move it forward with new contests, modes and features.

You say about bugs, there could be the option of those not wanting the new features sticking with the tried and trusted.

I wouldn’t think implementing MMVARI would take much as MMTTY is already implemented and in N1MM this is the case, there are more PSK contests arriving and yes it’s a minority but they are still enjoyable.

The logistics of using 2 radios and 2 antenna’s with separation in the typical uk modern house garden is a non starter, that's why I use SO2V which for me works very well in N1MM, yea sure it’s not as efficient as the 2 radio 2 antenna but it is very useful when looking for the rare multi’s without stopping the run, a quick switch over and make the contact in a run gap is usually achievable with a mediocre station.

Anyway just my new users view, I was going to try WIntest in the OMDX RTTY this weekend but I couldn’t see a contest type in for this one, any ideas?


Jim M0CKE


from: Bob Wilson, N6TV 
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 10:46 PM
To: support at win-test.com 
Subject: Re: [WT-support]Future implementa​tion of SO2V & PSK Support ??

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jim Balls <makidoja at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
  I'm a recent new user of Win-Test after many years of using N1MM.


So have you now mostly abandoned N1MM?  If so, why?  Or are you still using N1MM most of the time?


  So what is the likely hood of Wintest supporting SO2V and PSK for the "Small" contests station in the future.

I am not a Win-Test developer, but I would say that the chances of PSK contest support being added to Win-Test via MMVARI are really very low, due to the complexity of the programming task, and the very limited demand at this time.

See

http://lists.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2007-May/073720.html 
http://lists.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2009-January/077008.html

for prior discussion re. PSK support (some comments from over 4 years ago).

As for SO2V support, there is some demand for that feature, but note that it is impossible to support in some radios such as Icom,  which provide little information about the status of VFO B.  Note also that almost all transceivers can't hear a thing on VFO B while you are transmitting on VFO A, so you're better off putting a second radio on the same band with a well-separated antenna or band-stop filter.  Then you can use using Ctrl-S (Radio Swap) as needed.

Please note that Win-Test has a feature to load spots into VFO B (Alt-Double-Click in band map).  Try it.

I agree that it would be nice if you could use the secondary radio window and a separate bandmap to track VFO B, but development of such major enhancements to Win-Test seems to have ceased due to lack of time available to the two main developers, so until new developers are given access to the source code, I don't expect any such features to be implemented any time soon.

I'm just grateful that the busy Win-Test developers have any time at all to fix major bugs.  And I am also glad that Win-Test is a very stable and reliable program that could be made a lot less stable and reliable if too many enhancements are added too quickly.

73,
Bob, N6TV


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