Roger,
Put things in perspective by looking at the other 3 major contesting
programs (also not full-time jobs for their authors) - and it's a
program, not a programme, or perhaps a "program y'all" since it
comes from W5 land :.) Though I haven't done a count, I believe
Writelog supports more contests than the others do, and also
allows more flexibility in setup too. There are just too many
contests out there to support them all. Some minor contests, in
their attempt to get more activity, have supplied their own, free
software (for example, PA QSO Party, and one of the Italian
contests). Things like the Wyoming QSO Party just aren't high up
on the priority list.
73 Barry
On 28 May 00, Roger P wrote:
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>
> A simplified built-in contest Wizard could well be a good compromise.
> Calculation of the final score and submission of the entry can (generally)
> be quite easily done manually. My only slight concern would be that one
> usually needs to use Writelog to determine strategy 'on the fly'. Consider
> CQWW where multipliers are as essential as raw contact numbers.
>
> I should make it clear that I am not in any way against PSK31, and I am most
> certainly wholly in favour of Writelog as a contest logging programme. I
> just feel that to some extent mainstream facilities have not received as
> much effort as peripheral ones when I know (from Ron at Dayton) that Wayne
> has very limited time to devote to Writelog programming.
>
> 73 Roger
> VE3ZI
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