Very good points and I hope they are quickly addressed, BEFORE anything new
is done. The packet window is really next to useless, especially if you have
seen how it works on other programs, like Logic for instance.
Unfortunately, Logic is worthless as a contesting program.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Dick Green
> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 16:49
> To: WriteLog
> Cc: Ron Stailey K5DJ; Wayne Wright W5XD
> Subject: [WriteLog] WL Errors in ARRL DX SSB
>
>
> Here are some problems I noticed while on for a short time in the
> 2002 ARRL
> DX SSB contest:
>
> 1. Typing in the entry window in SSB mode does not interrupt the
> CQ message.
> It does cancel Timed CQ, but only after the entire message has
> played. This
> used to happen in CW mode, but was fixed in a recent release (typing
> *anything* in the entry window aborts the message.) It should
> work the same
> way in SSB mode.
>
> 2. For the purposes of dupe checking, TO4T/FG is not considered
> the same as
> FG/TO4T. It should be -- after all, the country scanner considers it the
> same country. Had TO4T been correctly set up in the cty file, it
> should have
> been considered the same as the other two forms of the call.
>
> 3. Weird Bug: When a spot is grabbed from the Spot window, Super Check
> Partial erroneously shows it in red if the call has been worked on another
> band, but not the current band. This only happens when grabbing
> packet spots
> and only happens the first time the spot is grabbed!
>
> 4. Packet Problems (I may have reported these before, but probably a year
> ago):
>
> - The Packet Spot window should not jump back to the beginning (or maybe
> it's the end) when the window is scrolled and a new spot comes in. The
> current behavior makes it very awkward to rapidly jump around in
> the window
> working new mults or spots. At KR1G's M/2 the day before I was
> able to push
> CT's rate meter to 189/hr working packet spots like this, but couldn't get
> it over 100/hr with Writelog.
>
> - The Packet Spot window should show the time of the spot. I can't tell
> which ones are new and which ones are old.
>
> - The Packet Spot window should allow deletion of any line so bad
> spots can
> be purged.
>
> (I realize that the behavior of the Band Map window is different,
> but so is
> its usage. The Packet Spot window is (or should be) the fastest
> way to work
> though a bunch of packet spots.
>
> I would be happy to solve these problems myself by never using packet and
> never working an SSB contest (ever again!), but there are probably a few
> Writelog users who won't consider this an acceptable solution ;-)
>
> 73, Dick WC1M
>
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