[Ham-Mac] Hallucinations from this side of the Pond!

[Walter O'Brien, W2WJO]

Heck, who wants to run a contest in a room full of PC users anyway!!

Seriously though, it's a good point, but I think most "big gun" 
contesters are the next step up to the holy grail here - very few of 
them will probably be willing to change to something new, no less 
something Mac. I mean, look at the kludginess of some of the top 
software now, but they use it because, they always used it!

Except for Field Day I do most of the HF contesting alone anyway, and 
the VHF in a small team - but it's easy enough to import my ADIF data 
into the "master" log for conversion to Cabrillo (or whatever) and 
submission as a team, so it wouldn't matter if I was using Mac and they 
were using PC.

You've got a point about convincing the PC developers to add a Mac 
client, but how many PC developers can write Mac software? And if so, 
how many do it well, and Mac style? Most PC to Mac ports I've ever seen 
were pretty bumpy and ugly, although I'm sure there are exceptions.

But for 80% of my contest needs, a stand-alone with import/export via 
ADIF and/or Cabrillo will let me interact with the rest of a PC team, 
but lets me use a properly functioning, Mac contest program instead of 
a clunky PC program on a computer I would otherwise avoid.

Will check out that java cross-platform thing, that could be 
interesting..

73 Walter W2WJO

On Feb 1, 2005, at 7:01 AM, Don Agro wrote:

> I am finding this thread very interesting and wonder about one point 
> that hasn't been brought up yet...
>
> On 28-Jan-05, at 4:37 PM, Jonathan G0DVJ wrote:
>
>> - Rendezvous support for Multi-multi operation over ethernet or 
>> airport networks.
>
> It may be that a significant percentage of contesters work the 
> contests at club stations. The club stations usually use networked 
> PC's. If you want to use your Mac for a club contest, you would have 
> to use VPC and a PC client, or else a Mac client that would work with 
> the PC server.
>
> You wouldn't be able to convince the whole club to switch to Macs - 
> and there wouldn't be much point in showing up with the best Mac Ham 
> logging program in the world if it wouldn't work with "WriteLog" or 
> whatever they are using.
>
> The same would be true of club field day events, you would have to use 
> a PC client on the PC server or else a Mac client written to work with 
> a PC client like "Field Day Logger by N2TDK".
>
> Ideally then, the best solution would be to convince the author(s) of 
> the best networked PC logging program(s) to facilitate the creation of 
> a Mac client for their logging program ?
>
> If not a staring point it is certainly an issue that the author(s) of 
> Mac logging software would run into quickly.
>
> (Please correct me if I've missed something).
>
> BTW jLog looks pretty interesting it's free and is cross platform 
> Java. Has anyone tried it ?
> <http://jlog.org/>
> <http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/2337>
>
>
> 73 Don Agro VE3VRW
>
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