[WriteLog] ok-om contest

[Bob Henderson]

Wayne

A lot of us have kept the faith with WL for a long time and for good
reason.  WL is an excellent contest logger but keeping abreast of contest
rules with so many events in the annual calendar is clearly proving to be a
significant challenge.

I have done rather well in contests with WL and hope I can continue to do
so but I feel it is getting harder.  A month back I raised concerns over
the scoring irregularities associated with the Russian DX Contest.  These
turned out to be the same concerns reported two years earlier, which went
unaddressed and ended up with at least one high profile contester switching
permanently to an alternative logging package.  Following my note re RDX
others wrote saying they suffered the same problems but felt there was
little interest in fixing them.  I confess I found their opinions hard to
counter given my observations received no acknowledgement, let alone any
commitment they would be addressed.  Scoring in the RDX module has been
incorrect for at least 3 years now.  This is way too long.  Particularly so
when RDX is one of the major events in the annual contest calendar and for
the last two years a WRTC 2018 qualifying event.

I would dearly love to see WL top of the pile in contest logging but it
really can't be when modules for even major contests don't reflect current
rules.

73 Bob, 5B4AGN

On 11 April 2016 at 02:46, Wayne, W5XD <w5xd at writelog.com> wrote:

> > The problem is the Wayne can’t be a one man show and keep up with all the
> > contests.  The third party guys have stopped developing and we users
> > who paid
> > for the sofware are left holding the bag.  N1MM has a bunch of active
> > contesters who keep things up to day. Very hard to compete with.  I
> > feel bad
> > for the WL developers and team, but that’s progress.
>
> Golly. One or two modules get out of date and you're ready to throw in
> the towel? I am not.
>
> The problem with keeping up with rules changes, in my opinion, is more
> with finding out about rule changes than it is with getting the updates
> out. The old adage that, "if you want a job done right, you have to do
> it yourself" means that the WL team needs to make a better effort
> watching for rule changes--we are obviously guilty as charged. But I
> hope you'll also understand that posting complaints to the reflector the
> day after the contest in question ends (as was done to start this
> thread) might not be the optimum time or method to let the WL team know.
>
> > Very hard to compete with.
> it depends on what you mean by competition. WL users are still winning
> contests.
>
> Wayne
>
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