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Win-Test Contest Logging Software
Win-Test Contest Logging Software
I have just started using Win-Test for Windows Contest Logging Software in November 2013. I started using it after using CT, NA, and TRLog DOS Contesting Software and stints with N1MM and WriteLog. I had used CT for a number of years and was fairly proficient with it. When I moved here from Oklahoma, some of the contesters here used NA and I tried that for a while. But with newer versions of Windows not playing well with DOS applications, I decided to take the plunge and start using a Windows based contesting package. At work we tried almost every trick in the book to get some of the old DOS packages to play well with Windows 7 and never got some of them to work. We had a good bit of trouble with drivers. I had a lot of conversations with some of my serious contesting buddies from across the country and a good number of them had started migrating to Win-Test. I have used WriteLog in the past, but by recommendation from several serious contesters, including K3LR, I am making the move to Win-Test
Let's look at some of the features:
Win-Test for Windows Options
- Easy navigation in the log
- CW generation in background, leaving you free to "type ahead" (no extra hardware required)
- RTTY mode by MMTTY interfacing
- Resizable and floating windows
- Integrated voice keyer
- Networking with Ethernet or RS-232 ports (can be mixed on the same machine)
- On-the-fly log synchronisation (no central server required)
- Partial and N+1 search on-the-fly search
- Database assisted field auto completion
- Most keyboard shortcuts use the CT syntax
- Integrated keys remapping
- Real time greyline display
- Easy and powerful use in SO2R
- Graphical and textual bandmaps
- Real time Objectives files comparison
- Extensive statistics and decision tools updated in real time
- Numerous supported transceivers (Kenwood, Icom, Yaesu, Elecraft, TenTec, etc...)
- Propagation prediction software HamCAP interfaced
- Possible to interface many devices on serial ports, parallel ports and USB
- Take skeds and pass mults between stations with ease
- Cabrillo, ADIF, text and CSV files generation
- Easy summary generation for sending to the mailing lists
- Worked multipliers exports for post-contest analysis
- Multi-monitor support (if your OS allows it)
- Etc...
Win-Test integrates well with my computer and rig. I am new to Win-Test and I am moving to it because of comments I received from K3LR and other contesters. I have just moved to it in November of 2013. Overall it is a robust contesting software package.
Win-Test charges $45 for the software, support and updates.
Win-Test for Windows is a mature package that works very well. I look for this to be my main Contesting/DXing logging software for a long time to come!
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