[WriteLog] More QTC Improvements

[George Beasley]

George,

This feature is already there!
No need to count, just key in the call and immediately it tells you if he is
good for some more QTCs and just how many he is due. This is at the RH side
of the entry window (in red).
In general if someone calls me for QTCs I will send him some if there are 5
or more, less than 5 is not worth it.
Waiting till 10 can work against you. I once had 100 unsent QTCs at the end
of the contest as towards the end, all the guys I asked to take them from me
refused. Better to get them away in small batches than not at all.
Always a great contest and a lot of fun.
I have never done the WAE test with W/Log from EU. I just imagined that the
"R" was sent automatically when the line was completed.
I am always impressed by some of those great operators in EU,  it shows in
the way they take those QTCs at 36wpm and more.

73 de George, 5B4AGC
Web Site www.qsl.net/5b4agc

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Georgek5kg at aol.com>
To: <writelog at contesting.com>
Cc: <fcg at kkn.net>; <CQ-Contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 3:23 AM
Subject: [WriteLog] More QTC Improvements


> WriteLog is a wonderful program for use in the WAE contest.  It makes the
> handling of QTCs an interesting and fun part of the contest.  I'd even
venture a
> guess that WL has contributed significantly to WAE participation because
of
> the clever way it handles QTCs.
>
> Boris, T93Y, has made suggestions for improvements to WL to help the
European
> ops better handle the process of receiving QTCs.  For those of us
> non-European ops who send QTCs, I too have a suggestion for a change to
WL.  Here it is:
>
> During the contest, we receive frequent requests for QTCs from the
European
> ops.  A practice I follow, and I believe is generally followed by the
majority
> of the contestants, is to wait until we have accumulated 10 QTCs before we
> send them as a unit.  Here is the problem: we only know how many unsent
QTCs we
> have by counting them in the log.  And this happens over and over
throughout
> the contest.  It necessitates keeping the log window open to at least 10
entries
> long.  In my case, I keep it open to 12 entries long, as this helps me to
> judge if I have 10 unsent QTCs and, therefore, are ready to send another
batch.
> I would like to avoid having to constantly make this count "in my head".
> Computers are made for counting, so lets have WL do the count for us!
>
> I would like to see a small window display the number of unsent QTCs, and
I
> believe the best location for this small window is on the lower task bar
> adjacent to the CW WPM window.  Better yet, would be to color code the
unsent QTC
> number, and turn it from red to green once the count reaches 10.
>
> I would like other non-European ops' opinions of this suggestion to have a
> small window continually display the number of unsent QTCs using the
red/green
> color scheme.
>
> If this proves to be a worthwhile suggestion, I would like to see Wayne
> implement it.
>
> Thanks, George K5KG / K4KG
>
> George I. Wagner, K5KG
> Productivity Resources LLC
> 941-312-9450
> 941-312-9460 fax
> 201-415-6044 cell
>
>
>
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