[CQ-Contest] Do serial numbers in contests hinder participation?

[Pete Smith]

At 05:52 PM 3/23/2009, Tim Gardner wrote:
>Same here.  Zero VA qsos while I searched for OK and ND (even though the 
>VA stations were mostly loud all weekend).
>
>While I don't especially like serial number exchanges (particularly when 
>the "county name" is a sufficient exchange), that alone won't normally 
>stop my participation if I am interested.  This weekend, I avoided VA due 
>to the added hassle.
>
>We still need a generalized contest logger that will handle multiple 
>simultaneous contests.
>
>
>Tim - N9LF

N1mm Logger handles this, with one problem.  What it does is list the last 
10 contest logs you opened, in the order they were opened, on its Files 
menu.  It only takes about 2 seconds max to switch among contests.  If 
you're switching between RTTY and non-RTTY contests, you'll have to 
manually open and close the digital interface window, which adds a few more 
seconds.

The problem?  It lists all QSO parties simply as "QSO Party", so if you 
want to multi-task among them, you get confused.  I asked one time, and was 
told that this would not be easy to fix, because of the architecture of the 
file listing, but maybe it would be possible at least to signal which QSO 
party is currently loaded, in another window.  I'll ask.

73, Pete N4ZR