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Re: [CQ-Contest] windows-based contest programs: a question..

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] windows-based contest programs: a question..
From: k1ttt@arrl.net
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:32:04 -0500 (EST)
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try n1mm logger at http://www.n1mm.com... its free, and you can run a
whole contest virtually mouse free if you want.  keystrokes for most
common functions are similar to ct and it has an improved mode that is
like tr's 'do everything by hitting enter' mode.  try it, you'll like it.

> By and large, DOS is dead. But TR rocks.. Hopefully we all know that, too
> ;)
> However, be it for good or bad, time marches on and Win based logging
> programs will probably become more and more the standard.
>
> Now, before I ask, let me say that I've NEVER used anything but TR and CT.
> The former by choice and preference, the latter because that's what we've
> got @ NQ4I (yes.. I've tried to sell Rick on TR. More than once;) Well,
> there was that one time I used -or tried to use- WriteLog during some now
> forgotten 'test.
>
> At any rate, I do seem to recall that WL was extremely "mouse heavy". By
> that I mean we were always having to dink with the mouse to activate a
> field, etc. Assuming that WL is not alone in it's reliance on a mouse, I
> gotta ask....
>
> WHY??!!!!  Surely the same fields/tasks can be handled by keystokes(??).
> Maybe it's just me going on a prior less than favourable experience and
> perhaps things have changed. But i don't see why an op should have to take
> a
> hand off of the radio/keyboard/whatever just because he's using a Win
> based
> program.
>
> OK.. flame away;)
>
> 73,
> Ian, K5ZM
> --
> "Uh, this is no offense, but,uh... You are a robot, aren't you?"
>
>
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