[MacLoggerContest] Re: MacLoggerDX tab order

[Don Agro]

Hi John,

On 3-Aug-05, at 5:01 PM, John E Bastin wrote:

> At the risk of further muddying the waters of desired/needed  
> functions in a contest program, here's what I'm used to working  
> with in a contest program:

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> I'm assuming that this discussion is aiming at ultimately producing  
> a contest logging program for the Mac, and not just contest  
> enhancements to MacLoggerDX.

This is an incorrect assumption.

> MacLoggerDX is a great DX logging and record-keeping program, and I  
> think Don would agree that it is a very complex package, both from  
> the user's and from the programmer's point of view.

No I would not agree. It is a very complex package from the  
programmer's point of view but not from the user's point of view.

> Contest logging programs are equally complex programs in their own  
> right, if they are to be able to do everything that contesters  
> demand and still maintain a premium on doing everything in a  
> minimum amount of time. Due to this complexity, I think that  
> efforts to make MacLoggerDX into a contesting program would not  
> contribute to its present function, and would produce a sub-optimal  
> contest program at best. The contest logging program needs to be a  
> stand-alone design, with features that enhance contesting at the  
> forefront.

Sorry John but I and many others disagree wholeheartedly with your  
assumption. MacLoggerDX can and is being used for contesting.

> I would like nothing better than to be able to put a Mac back in  
> the shack for contesting as well as normal logging. I don't  
> consider myself a top contester by any stretch of the imagination,  
> but I have pushed my present contesting program to QSO rates of 150- 
> per-hour, and the software is really capable of a lot more than  
> that if I was better at it.
>
> Maybe it's farther than this discussion is aiming, but that's my  
> target. Until a contesting program for the Mac gets to that point,  
> I've got a PC in the shack. Use the best tools for the job you need  
> done.

Have fun with the PC.

There are a lot of people who do not accept this and have been  
working very hard to make MacLoggerDX a contesting program and are in  
fact using MacLoggerDX and Cab-Converter for contesting.

I am sorry that you reject this option but it is very much alive and  
we have heard it can't be done before - this serves no purpose, it  
can and is being done.


73 Don Agro VE3VRW

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