On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:33:34PM -0000, N7MAL wrote:
> Gee excuse me if I'm not surprised by N6TR's response. I will take issue with
> it though. How many multi-multi networked stations are there, 10 or 12. My
> guess would be around 1% of the total contest stations. So from where I sit
> and 99% of the contesting community:'Who Cares'
Yup - could be. I was just pointing out that those who liked TR better
did have an option when invited to a multi-multi that used CT.
> If the insert key is so wrong why are upcoming contest logging programmers
> like N1MM implementing it.
I can't answer that. I can only tell you that typing in a callsign
that just answered your CQ takes time - and that if you have to take
some extra time to move your hands from the normal typing position
to hit a key to start sending CW - this is wasted time. It just
seemed more logical to me to use the big RETURN key to start the process.
I suspect N1MM copied CT.
This was just too obvious of a difference in philosophy between me and
K1EA, so I had to write my own program.
> Each programmer has to determine his 'niche' and go for it. I predict 5 years
> from now you will be a full blown dinosaur, today you're just a baby dinosaur.
I think you are selling me short. I would like to be a full blown dinosaur
now. The whole DOS market is pretty much dead. After CT went "free", it
destroyed what little market was left. I haven't put out a new release
in a very long time.
I don't mind being in the dinosaur niche. I guess that's why my contest
scores are down - I don't use new techology logging software.
> If TR had been the first computer contest logging program I used I would
> still, probably, be using today. CT came along first, for me, and I liked it.
> I tried TR in the early days but had already been exposed to CT. TR is a well
> written program and does exactly what it is supposed to do: 'LOG' a contest.
I think the whole CT versus TR debate has played out. CT was first and
won because of that.
Tree
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