[CQ-Contest] Everyone uses CT

[Tree]

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