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<DIV>Not fully abandoned N1MM as i still need something for unsupported contests
and modes in Wintest.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>You say about bugs, there could be the option of those not wanting the new
features sticking with the tried and trusted.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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?</DIV>
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<DIV>Jim M0CKE</DIV>
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<A title=n6tv@arrl.net href="mailto:n6tv@arrl.net">Bob Wilson, N6TV</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, December 16, 2011 10:46 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=support@win-test.com
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [WT-support]Future implementation of SO2V & PSK
Support ??</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jim Balls <SPAN
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class=gmail_quote><SPAN class=Apple-style-span>I'm a recent new user of
Win-Test after many years of using N1MM.</SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Arial>So have you now
mostly abandoned N1MM? If so, why? Or are you still using N1MM most
of the time?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>So what is the likely hood of Wintest supporting SO2V and PSK for the
"Small" contests station in the future.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>See</DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://lists.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2007-May/073720.html">http://lists.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2007-May/073720.html</A> </DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://lists.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2009-January/077008.html">http://lists.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2009-January/077008.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV>for prior discussion re. PSK support (some comments from over 4 years
ago).</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Please note that Win-Test has a feature to load spots into VFO B
(Alt-Double-Click in band map). Try it.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>73,</DIV>
<DIV>Bob, N6TV</DIV></DIV>
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