[Ham-Mac] JARTS-WW-RTTY

[Don Agro]

Hi Steve,

On 18-Oct-05, at 8:30 AM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:

> I think Don Argo and others have formed a SIG to come up with a Mac  
> contest
> logging program.  It is needed but the market probably does not  
> justify
> their time and effort.

It's Agro not Argo Dick :)

The Contest list has provided many useful insights into how  
contesters work and many of those ideas have been incorporated into  
MacLoggerDX...

<http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/macloggercontestl>

Also Scott Andersen has started a Yahoo Group for people who are  
using MLDX and Cab-Converter to do contesting.
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cab-converter/>

Scott continues to add new contests to Cab converter.

A lot of work has gone into the Contest helper in MLDX ...

<http://www.dogparksoftware.com/MacLoggerDX/Manual/Pages/ 
contesthelper.html>

Chen and I have also put a lot of time into cocoaModem/MacLoggerDX  
contest interoperability.

<http://homepage.mac.com/chen/cocoaModem/current/Documentation/ 
WhatsNew/whatsnew.html>

The old saw that "MacLoggerDX isn't a serious contest application" is  
just not true any more.

As Scott puts it...

"I've spent many, perhaps too many, hours in front of the computer  
doing search-and-pounce and racking up points. My operating skill,  
propagation conditions, rudeness of the lids in the pile-up, all  
these things may have limited my success in the adventure.  
MacLoggerDX never has." - B. Scott Andersen NE1RD"

MacLoggerDX is not a contest logger - it is much more than that and  
it has contesting features that no other Mac program has - and we are  
improving it daily.

Just this week we added support for the microHAM USB micro KEYER  
which utilizes the K1EL WinKey chip.

<http://www.microham.com/mk%20specifications.html>

If you are interested in Contesting with MLDX you should probably  
talk with some of the people who are actually using it for that  
purpose :)


73 Don Agro VE3VRW

D o g   P a r k   S o f t w a r e   L t d .

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