[UK-CONTEST] Attn. N1MM users

[Tom Wylie]

At the risk of being hung drawn and quartered.

I guess in the world view of things ROPOCO must be at least 1,001 in the 
top list of 100 things to do.
Its a very parochial contest entirely for the UK, with a low number of 
entrants (in global terms).

I guess it just isnt important enough for a software writer to spend 
some time writing up a module.   An american probably doesn't understand 
rotating post codes in any case.

I think it is just too much to expect software writers to accomodate 
every contest in the world.  I guess they too have a life, and like to 
spend a little time in front of the radio from time to time.

I have met Olivier and Larry of Win-Test several times over a beer and 
they are great and wonderful nice people and I think everybody on this 
reflector will agree they are one of the most responsive and helpful 
teams around.   However, they first wrote this software for their OWN 
use at their OWN Contest station and after a few pleaders, made the 
software available to others.   Now, at the drop of a hat we expect them 
to continually update and develop their software to take account of 
everybody in the world's, own particular foibles, wants and needs, and 
we expect them to do this instantly without any additional cost.

Just the other day at work I asked a software company to modify a query 
so I could extract an additional piece of information and was quoted 
£100 per hour.....

Amateur Radio is a hobby not only to us, but to most of the ham radio 
software writers out there also.   I think we should not forget this.   
The costs we pay for Win-test etc does not reflect the true cost in time 
and effort.  Oh, and N1MM was free the last time I looked.    Who pays 
for the writer's timer?

Donning my flame proof overall

Tom GM4FDM


Clive Whelan wrote:
> It is a matter of some regret, that to enter ROPOCO this
> w/e, I have to revert to Writelog, because N1MM does not
> support the event.
>
> Support has been requested by YT, and it is "on the list".
> However, the priority level is probably somewhere between
> low and zero, since I seemed to be a lone voice. May I
> suggest that more UK clamour for this support would be a
> good idea. I think that in the full glare of publicity on
> the N1MM mailing list would be a good place. We Brits are
> just soooooo backward in coming forward ;-)
>
>
> 73
>
>
> Clive
>
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