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

[Kelly Taylor]

I think it's wise to start stockpiling working DOS machines.

There's enough crap on the operating table and enough stuff to do with two
hands without having to fight with a friggin' mouse.

Hopefully the Windows-based logger architects will wake up soon.

73, kelly
ve4xt
----- Original Message -----
From: "k5zm" <k5zm at comcast.net>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 12:24 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] windows-based contest programs: a question..


> 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
> --
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>
>
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