[UK-CONTEST] Contest software development

[Dave Sergeant]

On 28 Jun 2007 at 10:12, Clive Whelan wrote:

> In about 2003, I urgently needed to update my computer which
> would then run XP. There was no way that I was prepared to
> retain the ghastly Win98 platform just to run a DOS logger,
> and did more research. 

'Ghastly Win98' - oh dear. There are many of us who consider 98 to be 
the best operating system MS ever did and have gone rapidly downhill 
since. My backup machine and the laptop I use for contesting are both 
98SE machines and I see no point in upgrading them - despite what 
some say it is a very stable system and still is very viable for many 
applications. I have been using my current main PC with XP for around 
6 months and can't really see what it offers me that 98 doesn't - 
loads of gimmicks, a flash user interface long since turned off, no 
evident increase in speed, and a 'nanny state' security system. 
Progress, I don't think so. And the myth that you can't run DOS 
programs on XP is not true, I have not come across any of my DOS 
programs which won't run.

As for logging software, I have been a long time SD user. Simple to 
use straight out of the box and very easy to produce the correct 
Cabrillo for virtually anything. But I am a simple user, no keyboard 
CW, no ESM (whatever that is) and no SO2R. Does everything I need, 
why look elsewhere.

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com