[WriteLog] Troubling info

[Kostas SV1DPI]

Hello to all
I like writelog a lot and i am familiar and it is difficult for me to change 
it. I can understand now the guys who told me that they don't like to change 
the ct and i had the question how they can insist in a program not so good 
anymore... If i tried my first contesting program today i would voted n1mm 
because it is free and offers abt the same or more from writelog.
What is more in n1mm?
1.price (free)
2.customer service (far better as anyone can ask and there is a waiting list 
for features. How many of us have asked for full support of the second vfo 
feature without a reply at all? tell us no but without a reply?)
3.manual (there is a real manual to setup everything while in writelog there 
is only the online help).

all these reasons are able to drive someone to n1mm and not writelog.
Beside this a number of problems with the network was the reason for many 
users to try something else and stay there. (i have heard that win-test is 
very good on this)
Some problems with the installers, especially in older machines, had to do 
also (not all hams have a computer with service pack 2 to install the 
writelog).

I wish writelog stay usable but without serious new features for more than 2 
years what you can expect? I am still here (without renew last year) but how 
much?

Kostas sv1dpi


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Parry" <bparry at rgv.rr.com>
To: <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 4:28 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] Troubling info


> We got an interesting e-mail from RX9TX last night that listed the various
> brands of contesting software and their relative use in the Russian 
> contest.
> I switched to Writelog once my computers started using Windows XP. I had
> assumed that most others had done this as well. Apparently that was the 
> case
> at first, but now ...not so much.
>
> http://rx9tx.qrz.ru/index/loggers.gif
>
> In the Russian Contest you can see that the percentage of stations using
> Writelog has steadily and consistently dropped from 2005 - 2008. Since 
> there
> were over 3000 entries, you would think that this is a pretty good 
> sampling.
> I am not familiar with a number of the pieces of contesting software but 
> it
> appears that TR and Writelog are on the decrease, while N1MM, Win-Test and
> Super-Duper are all on the increase. My original favorite, CT, doesn't 
> even
> make the list anymore.
>
> I have used CT, TR, and Writelog over the years, but I haven't paid much
> attention to the other software. I does make me wonder, am I missing
> something? I realize that N1MM is free (722 users) but that doesn't 
> explain
> why 338 folks paid for WinTest and only 191 paid for Writelog.
>
> Is the problem that they have better service, does the software have more 
> or
> better bells and whistles, is the software more user friendly. What do 
> they
> have that we don't?
>
> Bill W5VX
>
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