[WT-support] Win-Test in VHF/UHF Contests

[Bernhard Buettner]

I have recently been "forced" to operate VHF and UHF contests - quite 
unique and different from HF contesting, which I have been doing for 30+ 
years. After UHF/SHF contest in September and Marconi Memorial Contest 
last weekend, here is my short wish list for features I have been 
missing in Win-Test:

(1) Allow searching by QTH locator in Check Partial and/or N+1 windows. 
Knowing that one can enter the locator in the callsign field and press 
F10 to check for matches,  it would be even better if one could enter 
the locator into the designated field and have WT automatically update 
the two windows, even for a partial locator. So you would type "JO33" 
and the windows would contain stations from VHF.DTB and from the log 
which matching the locator and the ones already worked would be red, 
while the rest would be white (never worked) or green (worked on another 
band). You would enter "JO33?P" and the lists would be shorted to the 
calls that match this pattern. You would enter "JO33VP" and the N+1 
window would display callsigns matching variations of "JO33VP" one 
letter off, like "DP6A JO33WP".

(2) Callsign/locator data for QSOs that were not completed entered into 
the band map would be kept in a cache. E.g. I hear station HG6X on 
144.035 and copy his QTH as KN08FX. I enter that call into the band map. 
I observe the signal for a while and return to that station 20 minutes 
later. Now, when clicking on the spot, WT would automatically fill in 
callsign AND QTH locator previously copied. Today I have to make notes 
on paper to make sure I'll have the QTH locator in case of QSB during 
the QSO.

(3) The menu entry File | Update Database obviously has no function in a 
VHF contest. It would be great to update the DB from within Win-Test. 
After all, we tend to work the same stations from QTH over and again. 
Bug seems to be open on flyspray since a long time.

Maybe there is some hope for improvement?

73 Ben, DL6RAI
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Bernhard Büttner
dl6rai at darc.de
Obere Dorfstrasse 21, 86556 Stockensau, Germany
+49 (0) 8257 9276757