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

[John Bastin]

On Jan 28, 2005, at 4:37 PM, Jonathan G0DVJ wrote:

>
> Well - the list already seems to have woken up ... but I'll post this 
> anyway :) ...
>
> I was just dreaming wildly for a moment before I came back to the real 
> world...
> What if we Mac-based Amateurs (Hams) who are into contesting had 
> software like the Windoze guys do - except of course it would be more 
> stable, reliable and usable ...
>

[big snip]

> Apologies if I am wasting anyone's bandwidth with this.   I (and I 
> suggest some of the Mac developers reading this list) would be 
> interested in knowing whether any of this resonates with others on the 
> list or whether I am alone in these views!

Sounds like you're describing WriteLog for the Mac! I use WriteLog on a 
PC in the shack for contesting, and you've pretty much listed all the 
features that make it a great contest logging package.

If there was a contest software package for the Mac that had _all_ the 
features you just listed, I would retire the PC, put another Mac in the 
shack, and become a 100% Macintosh household again. Without _all_ those 
features, though, the contester has the software as an additional 
opponent in any contest.

I'll never be a "big gun" contester, for budget and property acreage 
reasons, but put me down as a fanatic Macintosh user who would _love_ 
to see a serious Macintosh contest software package available.

73,
John E Bastin, K8AJS
jbastin at sssnet.com
http://www.qsl.net/K8AJS