[MacLoggerContest] epilogue (for now!)

[Bob Jones]

Jonathan

I think I came to MLDX too late to be involved in this discussion but 
having used the programme in the 80m Club Championships I can suggest 
one very simply modification that would help contesters. This is to put 
the signal report and serial number fields directly after the callsign 
field. That way a simply 'tab' button, rather than navigating the 
screen with a mouse, could be used after the callsign has been logged.  
I realise that for DX-ing this may not be the ideal, but there's 
normally a little more time available between QSOs then!


Best regards
Bob, G3YIQ
The Old Vicarage
Bradford-on-Avon
Wiltshire
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M: 07802 956179


On 24 Jul 2005, at 14:58, Jonathan G0DVJ wrote:

>
> Hi to all who are still on this list that we set up near the start of 
> 2005 for discussions on any consensus for a MacLogger Contest program 
> for OSX.  I just wanted to tie up some loose ends for those of you 
> that may have thought I had gone and slit my wrists having failed to 
> achieve the level of consensus required !!
>
> There was quite a lot of detailed discussion directly between Don 
> (VE3VRW), Scott (NE1RD) and myself during April which have resulted in 
> a number of contest additions around that time to the existing MLDX 
> software by Don.  I was then away in USA and Canada for most of May 
> and then travelling again in Europe during June.  In the last month I 
> have been too ill with a virus to bother too much about such a posting 
> as this.   So apologies for the silence until now.
>
> I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the list, especially 
> Don who has shown considerable patience with us all in trying to 
> follow the immensely detailed and specialised contest requirements for 
> logging and subsequently adding some very useful features to MLDX for 
> basic contest working.
>
> I conclude for the moment that there is consensus that a dedicated MLC 
> application for pure OSX suited for demanding contest operators as 
> well as easy enough basic features for the casual participant is still 
> something that would have a market and for which a gap still exists.
> I also conclude that there is insufficient impetus at this time for 
> such software to be developed as a new commercial application.  I hope 
> that this may change in the future.
>
> Thanks again all.
> 73,
> Jonathan G0DVJ
> --
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