[UK-CONTEST] Contest logger comparisons

[David G3YYD]

The moral of the story here is do not use Wintest, while it has such a 
"feature". There are other logging programs that do not have this "feature".

As for adjudication, if I was doing it with this known fault then I 
would relegate the log to a check log on callsign, band and time and 
ignore the serial number.

So power to your elbow Quin if you work through it so the other end does 
not loose out.

73 David G3YYD

On 18/06/2011 16:11, QUENTIN COLLIER wrote:
> Thanks for the input Oliver - that's pretty much the problem as I now understand
> it.
>
>
> The Wintest developers may well claim that it isn't a bug - but a "service
> feature" which results in the outgoing serial number as logged being different
> from the outgoing serial number as sent looks very like a bug to me! In
> practical terms, it means that in adjudicating NFD I am having to put in place
> procedures (which will significantly increase the complexity and time of
> adjudication) to make sure that entrants don't get unfairly docked points for a
> fault that is actually at the other end of the QSO. Whether that position is
> sustainable in the longer term remains to be seen.
>
> 73,
>
>
>
> Quin G3WRR
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Oliver Bock<dj9ao at gmx.net>
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Sent: Saturday, 18 June, 2011 16:06:57
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Contest logger comparisons
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> i believe this refers to certain scenarios in a M/S environment. Wintest, as
> N4ZR also notes,
>
> does not "reserve" a serial number for any of the stations running in such an
> environment.
>
> Due to that, I think, it may be that e.g. the running Operator sends a
> particular number and
>
> before he enters the QSO a multiplier station on another band enters a QSO with
> exactly that
>
> number.
> The Win-Test developers have repeatedly explained that this is not a bug, but a
> result of the
>
> particular way Win-Test handles M/S in its network.
>
> 73
> Oliver  DJ9AO/M0TAO
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