[CQ-Contest] Awesome Morse Trainer

[Pete Smith]

It might be worth noting that the software has only been out a month or 
two, and he has already revised it once and addressed a number of user 
issues.  This guy is some programmer.

73, Pete N4ZR

At 05:18 PM 12/8/2004, Fabian Kurz wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:55:10AM -0500, Richard DiDonna NN3W wrote:
> > I just downloaded this program, and I agree with Tom,
> > its awesome.
> >
> > Very, very good trainer.  Comes with static, stupid
> > operators, folks that try to take your freq over, and
> > everything else you would expect.
>
>It's certainly a nice piece of software, but as a long-time PED-user,
>there are a few things which are a bit annoying:
>
>* When working at high speeds, I am used to press <insert> to send the
>station's rprt + number *while* entering the callsign, usually after
>the suffix. This is because nobody can type as fast as the callsign
>itself is sent, so you gain half a second or so when typing:
>
>Listen:  VE3NEA
>Type:       VE3<ins>NEA
>Send:           VE3NEA 5nn 123
>
>instead of:
>
>Listen:  VE3NEA
>Type:       VE3NEA <ins>
>Send:                   VE3NEA 5nn 123
>
>and that's not possible in MorseRunner because after pressing <ins>
>the callsign to be sent cannot be changed anymore (unlike in PED for
>example).
>
>* It's a bit annoying that directly after hitting <enter> to log the
>QSO you get the information if you logged it wrong, especially when a
>"LID" sends a report like "5nn 123 e e 122" and you pressed <enter>
>after the first number. This has little to do with real contesting,
>where one could easily correct it after the repetition, even though
>logging the QSO.
>The approach taken by PED is better in my opinion: you can change
>anything in the log as long as the session is running, *after* the
>session is complete you'll get your mistakes displayed.
>
>* The Competition-Mode is a nice feature, but success is largely
>dependend on the length of your callsign. Of course that's just like
>it is in a real contest but makes the scores on the highscore-list
>less comparable. For example I worked one try with a faked 3-letter
>call and made over 190 QSOs, with my own (long) call only about 175
>QSOs were possible (so far). There should be a standard-call to be
>used by anyone, or some other way to prevent this
>advantage/disadvantage for thise with short/long callsigns.
>
>* Another problem of the competiton-mode is that the parameters of
>"Activity" and "Bandwidth" are not fixed; it took quite some time to
>find good parameters for me and probably they're still far away from
>the optimum. In my opinion the competition mode should have totally
>fixed settings (except for CW pitch and speed) to make scores
>comparable. Well, lastly the length of the competition is pretty long;
>I rarely have 1h to spend on MorseRunner during weekdays..
>
>In spite of all this: It's a _great_ piece of software and, most
>importantly for many: it runs on Windows XP and 2000, which PED does
>not (without using VDRM or DOSbox).
>
>CC to VE3NEA, I don't know if he is reading on this reflector.
>
>73, Fabian DJ1YFK
>
>PS: Lurking a lot on cq-contest, I notice a *lot* of top-posting here.
>Please read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting   :-)
>--
>Fabian Kurz, DJ1YFK * http://fkurz.net/
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