[Dxbase] [MMTTY] Looking For a NON-CONTEST logging program

[Dave AA6YQ]

>>>AA6YQ comments below

-----Original Message-----
From: MMTTY at yahoogroups.com [mailto:MMTTY at yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
Neal Campbell
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 1:28 PM
To: MMTTY at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [MMTTY] Looking For a NON-CONTEST logging program

In this regard none of DXLabs is part of the logging program as they are all
third party programs. To be honest, I do not believe in cramming everything
in one humongous program as most people would rather have best of breed in
each category.

>>>The DXLab Suite is a free set of applications that automatically detect
each other's presence and interoperate. One of these applications -- the
DXLab Launcher -- provides a single point of control over the Suite; thus
from the user's perspective, the Suite appears to be a single application
with multiple windows. The Suite's functionality includes transceiver
control, logging, QSL route discovery, QSLing, award tracking, propagation
prediction and monitoring, spot collection and analysis, and digital mode
support for PSK31, PSK63, PSK125, and RTTY.

>>>There are several advantages to this modular architecture:

1. Users can control the learning curve by starting with a couple of
applications (like RTTY, logging, and transceiver control), mastering those,
and then adding more if and when desired.

2. Individual applications and databases can be rapidly updated and made
accessible to the user community, which is automatically alerted to their
availability by the Launcher; one mouse click in the Launcher initiates the
downloading in installation of a new updated. Reported defects are generally
corrected within 24 hours, keeping the backlog of reported but uncorrected
defects across the entire DXLab Suite between zero and two. New
transceivers, new transceiver firmware releases, and new DXCC entities can
also be rapidly accommodated. When Icom upgraded the ic7600, ic7700, and
ic7800 firmware to enable transceiver control applications to read the state
of split late last year, a release of Commander supporting this capability
was available a few days later. DXLab enabled those users pursuing DXCC
awards to identify needed spots of stations in the four new Netherlands
Antilles entities and the Republic of South Sudan from the first hour those
entities were valid for DXCC.

3. The intercommunication mechanism used by DXLab applications is publicly
documented; as a result, DXLab smoothly interoperates with many other
applications, e.g. MultiPSK, DM780, MMVARI, MMSSTV, FLDigi, MIXW, CW
Skimmer, HRD, SDR Radio, SpectraVue, BobCAT, and DX Atlas.

>>>With the exception of the DXLab Launcher, I designed and developed each
of the Suite's eight core applications; Rick N2AMG created the Launcher back
in 2002, but I took over its development shortly thereafter.

>>>Neal, your claim above that "none of DXLabs is part of the logging
program as they are all third party programs" is a blatant lie. From our
work together on ADIF, you have long known that I designed and developed the
DXLab applications.

>>>As for your statement that "I do not believe in cramming everything in
one humongous program as most people would rather have best of breed in each
category", the DXLab Suite's architecture is modular, and allows users to
pick and choose - in stark contrast with DXBase, which is monolithic and
closed.

>>>People in glass houses should not throw stones. Concentrate your efforts
on getting the announced DXBase 2010 released before it's 2012, or we'll
start referring to it as "DXBase Vista".

    73,

        Dave, AA6YQ