[Dxbase] Joe is now QRT - GONE - I truely have had enough ...

[Neal Campbell]

Larry

I would hate to see you leave. I am sure many received direct help from Joe and do not want to diminish that. I had a tempestuous relationship with him and glad its at an end but I do not wish to poison anyone else's'.

Last year at Dayton I think I saw 1 booth for a Logging program (it was directly across the aisle from where I was at the Flex Radio booth) and I never saw a single person there except for a caretaker sitting behind it.

There is no profit for a software logging program to attend and fork over the $450+ for a booth. Sorry but thats just the economics of it. If you miss the opportunity to talk with the owner, I was there last year albeit wearing a Flex Radio shirt (but man I did meet a TON of DXB users).

DXB isn't dead. I have just put up version 1.10's installer on the web (http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/DXB2007.zip) which has a refresh of the reference data as well as fixes the CD Callbook problem.



73
Neal
On May 10, 2012, at 8:11 AM, Larry E Price wrote:

> Neal - I only recall myself one other time that Joe retired and then
> returned and I know that was because of private problems in the health of a
> family member.  More than four years ago I 'predicted' on the reflector that
> the future of dxbase was questionable after Jack stopped having a sales
> booth at Dayton. Many of my colleagues here were outspokenly critical of my
> comments.  Then you rode in, bought the IP and everything was said to be
> rosy again.  
> 
> However, in the years that have gone by there has seemingly not been any
> progress, no booth at Dayton (although you said you were present 'working'
> another sales booth), no product development that we hams could see and
> except for the superior customer service offered by Joe not much activity:
> [like perhaps many others I once posted a problem I was having and was
> surprised by a personal telephone call from Joe to talk me through the
> solution, all at his expense].
> 
> So, like Joe (but without his intimate knowledge of the program), I too am
> probably gone because I simply don't have much confidence in the future of
> dxbase.
> 
> 73
> Larry
> W4RA
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Neal Campbell [mailto:nealk3nc at me.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 7:39 AM
>> To: 'Giuseppe Giunta - IT9VDQ'; dxbase at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Joe is now QRT - GONE - I truely have had enough
>> ...
>> 
>> Guys,
>> 
>> I am indeed working on fixing the bug for CD Callbook lookups' bearing
>> calculation bug in the 2007 version.
>> 
>> Joe has a long history on this reflector and I think we can all thank
>> him for his help.
>> 
>> But, Joe also has a history of these announcements of leaving and
>> coming back (at least in my history with the list). I think this is the
>> third or fourth time. This incident that has caused Joe's latest "final
>> straw" was that some files he sent to be included in the new installer
>> were not included in the test version.
>> 
>> The first time Joe "left forever" was that I had changed my mind about
>> what version of Access would be the new format for the v10 database
>> format. I decided to use Access 2000's library as I heard enough
>> comments that people could not find Access '97 anymore. This egregious
>> decision resulted in Joe leaving for 6 months, I believe.
>> 
>> My usual response to these types of outbursts is to say nothing and I
>> probably should have taken my own advice this time, but when he sends
>> this type of note to the reflector it demands a response. This time is
>> my "final straw" with him.
>> 
>> I will remember Joe for the time he has helped me and try to forget the
>> times he hasn't but its time to move on and get back to work on version
>> 1.10. I have truly moved on.
>> 
>> 73
>> Neal
>> 
>> 
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