[na-user] SS Database

[tgstewart@pepco.com]

I'd use it if offered in NA.  I'm sure we could find someone willing to do
the database given the utility in NAU or whatever.

I sort of agree with you...I find it a little distasteful compared to the
super check partial data.

The difference given current SS checking is that you can afford to be a
little sloppy with the exchange becuase you will just lose the QSO unless
it's a unique mult.  If you bust the call, it's 4 QSO's!  So if I get
caught up running the second radio and miss a piece of exchange on the
first in the process, there isnt much incentive for me to verify
information.  With the database exchange, there is little reason to verify
anything you miss other than the callsign.

I'd rather see you do some RTTY support coding or adding VHF bands.

Well, how about a callsign/grid database??  :)

73, Ty K3MM





dap14@daimlerchrysler.com on 03/09/99 03:06:41 PM

Please respond to dap14@daimlerchrysler.com

To:   na-user@contesting.com
cc:    (bcc: Tyler G Stewart/BENN/CEC)
Subject:  Re: [na-user] SS Database





I hate the idea of an SS database.  It rewards the poor op who can't copy,
in
some cases he or she just accepts the defaults and takes his chances with
the
log-checking process.  Personally, I don't believe this will help my score
one
bit - I'm pretty good at parsing together exchange fragments and applying
the
result to what I'm hearing.  However, I felt the same way about
super-check-partial too...

Bill framed the question pretty well.  However, I personally don't care
whether
this will sell even one more copy of NA.  While I think there are other
things
we could spend our time on more productively, I would code this feature if
the
serious, active, NA users want it.

As Bill pointed out, maintaining this database will require some work.
Somebody
needs to collect logs and crunch the data.  I am willing to write programs
to do
the crunching, but someone else will have to do the work.

Is this something that should just apply to SS (i.e.,
precedence/check/section)
or will the users demand that it be expanded to Sprint (name) IOTA, grid
square,
or some other data?  Where does it end?

Dave



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