[CQ-Contest] [RTTY] RTTY Super Check Partial Database - Request for Feedback

[Stephen Colello]

I use the General SCP for all contests. Haven't used the RTTY one for a few 
years.

Steve
KA2KON


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Raymond" <bob at wa1z.net>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>; <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 11:07 AM
Subject: [RTTY] RTTY Super Check Partial Database - Request for Feedback


> This message is for RTTY Contesters:
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> I am considering the possibility of retiring the RTTY-specific Super Check
> Partial database files sometime next year.  I am interested in your 
> feedback
> before doing so.
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> I've heard that many RTTY contesters, including myself, elect to use the
> "general" Super Check Partial database files in RTTY contests.  This can 
> be
> beneficial:  you catch any contesters that may be new to RTTY or don't
> operate RTTY contests often enough to be included in the RTTY database
> (i.e., they don't show up in enough RTTY logs to be included).  This is
> making me wonder if the RTTY-specific database has outgrown its 
> usefulness.
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> When I took over Super Check Partial from K5ZD in 2009, Don AA5AU also
> reached out to me to take over the RTTY-specific Super Check Partial
> database that he was maintaining separately.  By doing this, we were able 
> to
> consolidate two separate databases into one and encouraged everyone to
> funnel their log contributions to the supercheckpartial.com email address.
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> The "general" Super Check Partial database has always been generated from
> contest logs regardless of mode - this will never change.  When a RTTY
> contest log is contributed, it is used to generate both the "general" and
> the RTTY-specific SCP files.
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> As I understand it, the original primary motivation for generating a
> RTTY-specific Super Check Partial database had to do with keeping the size
> of the file as small as possible to maximize performance on older 
> computers
> and operating systems.   We've reached the point in consumer-grade 
> computer
> hardware where a now relatively small 1 MB file like MASTER.DTA no longer
> poses a performance issue even on what are now considered by 2013 
> standards
> as older computers and operating systems that are still under official
> support by their manufacturers.  I still use a Pentium 4 with 500MB RAM
> running Windows XP Service Pack 3 as my primary logging computer at home
> with no real performance issues with MASTER.DTA using several contest
> logging programs.
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> If you are a RTTY contester that continues to use the RTTY-specific SCP
> files for a particular reason, I would appreciate your feedback letting me
> know why. If there is a compelling reason why we should keep it around, 
> I'm
> more than happy to continue to generate it.  However, if it becomes clear
> that the database is no longer useful to the RTTY contesting community, I 
> am
> considering retiring it sometime next year.
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> ****Please reply to me offline****.  I will summarize comments in a
> follow-up email to these reflectors.
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> Thanks and 73,
>
> Bob WA1Z
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> http://www.supercheckpartial.com
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