Personally, I fall into John's "second" camp. I like my contesting program
to do that job best, then export the data into my "general" logging program
to do all the things that I want done in a general logger, such as award
tracking, info look-up on specific stations, ops, etc. I can not ever
envision myself as a single op station using an external data base DURING a
contest - way to busy for that !! lol.
...Allan B VE7XB
----- Original Message -----
From: "WA9ALS - John" <wa9als@starband.net>
To: <mbfuser@msn.com>; <WriteLog@contesting.com>
Sent: May 27, 2003 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] external data
> WriteLog is not a "full-featured" general logging program, although many
use
> it as such. It's primarily a contesting program, and there's not much
need
> for Flying Horse during a contest. I think most contesters save the
contest
> log in ADIF and then import into another general logging program. The
line
> is certainly starting to blur between contest programs trying to be
general
> loggers and general loggers trying to incorporate contesting features.
>
> There seem to be two camps - One wants "everything" in one program, and
the
> other wants a contesting program [full-featured] and a logging program
[full
> featured] and wants each author to concentrate on being the best at what
> they do and not try ot be all things to all people. When the latter is
> tried, the program often suffers from usability or more bugs, cost, etc.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <mbfuser@msn.com>
> To: <WriteLog@contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 10:17 AM
> Subject: [WriteLog] external data
>
>
>
> Does WriteLog have the capability of importing external data from CD's
like
> Buckmaster, or Callbook (flying horse). My other logging program allows
me
> to hit F3 with the callsign in the logging field and it looks up info info
> from the CD, such as the persons name and QTH, in a separate window. I
> haven't been able to find any info on this in the help files.
>
> It sure is a nice feature, and I'm hoping WriteLog is also able to do
this.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions, Mario N8XY
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