[SCCC] JX7DFA

[Richard J. Norton]

Although I can't say this issue qualifies as one of my top 1 billion
most deserving for donations, I have no issue with others who might.

In case some of you are unaware of this, I do have a comment on the
particular logging program that has been proposed.

Over the past number of years I have been involved with checking many
contest logs. The CT program has cost me countless hours of wasted
time and a good number of incidences of grief on the part of entrants.

For example, a CT bug (in my estimation) cost a team third place in
last summer's WRTC competition. The team listed in all the magazines
as coming in about 5th or 6th actually lost the last hour or so of
their contacts, and would have been third if they had been included.

The CT program saves data in binary format. It is very efficient in
terms of amount of memory required to store the data. It is extremely
intolerant of any flaw in data storage or data transmission. In other
words, if a bit is dropped in the middle of the log data, all data
after that point is often lost.

This has happened to CT users many times in the past, and I am sure,
will happen again this year.

I don't know why people do not use the TR logging program.  I admit
that N6TR is a closer friend than K1EA is. However, the TR program is
quite superior from the operator's viewpoint, particularly on CW.

I hope I've done a little to minimize the spread of the CT program.

Take your chances if you desire with CT.

Incidentally, it is quite unlikely that any contest sponsor would
reject a .ALL log from a JX.

73,

Dick Norton, N6AA


-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Brandon <dab@home.com>
To: SCCC Reflector <sccc@contesting.com>
Date: Sunday, December 03, 2000 8:51 PM
Subject: [SCCC] JX7DFA


>I had a nice chat with Per JX7DFA yesterday who had a FB 10m single
band
>score in the CQWW CW contest last weekend, and he seems to be getting
more
>into contesting lately.  He even made a special trip to the west side
of
>the island and operated with a generator because DX conditions are
better
>there.  For those of us who are DXers, he has probably given a lot of
us
>new overall or band countries/zones also.
>
>Anyway, he is using the ancient "freeware" version 6.26 of CT.  I
offered
>to buy him a new copy of CT to hopefully get him more interested in
>contesting (especially since ARRL 10m & ARRL DX contests require
Cabrillo
>format submissions).  I thought if I could get a few others to chip
in, it
>would lower the cost a bit and we could send it to him on behalf of
the
>SCCC.  If I could get 3 others to chip in $20, or 7 others to chip in
$10,
>that would take care of it.  If you are interested, please drop me a
note.
>
>    73 de Doug, N6RT
>
>
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