Great survey, Kostas! Thanks.
Some thoughts to add to the mix. As I noted in an earlier post in this
thread, a contest logger needs to become mentally and physically
automatic if we are be be competitive, and to do that, it needs to be
very good at all the contests we choose to operate.
Because I contest from W6, where scoring rules put us at such an extreme
disadvantage in major DX contests (except for WPX), they are a very low
priority for me, but RTTY, various NA contests, including state and
regional QSO parties are a high priority. N1MM supports all of the
contests I want to work, and does so very well. Last I heard, WinTest
does not support many of those contests.
73, Jim K9YC
On 1/24/2022 11:47 AM, Kostas SV1DPI wrote:
I used writelog for a long time. After that I was impressed from the
simplicity and reliability of wintest which I used in EP6T. When dxlog
became free and because it was looking like wintest, I tried it and I
use it as my primary contest software even my most of my operating is
just casual. The small team behind it and especially Paul K1XM is a good
reason to support it. We also use N1MM+ in my club. I have installed
also and tried 5m contest, a Russian software that I don't like.
About my opinion:
N1mm is good for casual contest. You can setup it with everything, has
the best documentation and a big number of users willing to help, and it
is free. Its' graphical interface is also very good, network is reliable
and over the 50% of users use it. Disadvantages are too use of mouse, it
needs a lot of space in screen, default settings are good for casual
contesting, the possibility to crash during a contest is something
normal... but you will not loose qsos.
Dxlog has a rather dos interface (but it looks like the old beloved dos
programs), but it is a completely windows program. It is very reliable,
also free, simple to use especially on cw and ssb, you don't need to
get your hands from the keyboard. It is good only for basic rtty
contesting. Also menus are similar to wintest (good) but with bad
structure (bad). Just a few users use it right now (around 10% ?) while
the most of them are Europeans. Something important to say is that among
the top contesters, dxlog has more users than n1mm! Look the first ten
in several categories in the last cq ww ssb and cw...
So I suggest DXlog...
73 Kostas SV1DPI
Στις 24/1/2022 17:03, ο/η John Bescher via CQ-Contest έγραψε:
For its simplicity, features and outstanding support I use N3FJP
software. I am the Field Day Manager for Citrus County Amateur Radio
Club for years and use N3FJP logging because a lot of operators are
new, do not want to struggle with a feature rich but complicated
logger and because N3FJP software is just about bullet proof. Try a
free copy, you will be impressed. John, N4DXI
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