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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am subscribing to the list so that (hopefully) I can avoid the problems of Saturday morning.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I downloaded what I expected was the latest version on Wintest on Wed 24 July at 14:35 Local Time (version 3.13.0). All was fine in the IOTA contest until I started working stations for the second time - non island stations came up with 599xxx for their IOTA reference and island stations similarly. Well I know now that this bug was spotted quickly and version 3.14 was published, but was I the only person who lost an hour trying to sort out what on earth was going on with unlucky version 13? I guess I was just unfortunate in downloading 3.13 in the short time that it was available. I ended up installing version 3.10 and all was OK. Anyway, it is only a hobby and it is hardly a matter of life and death! Or is it??</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Previously I have always used my own software but I quite fancy all the stats that Wintest provides and it is just not worth the enormous effort to add this to my code - so because of version 13, this contest was not a good introduction to someone else's package, Hi. Incidentally I can export ADIF and import this into my own main log in G4FAL software which is aptly suitable for keeping all logs together and for handing QSLs etc.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Other points:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Is there any way to import and export modified standard messages? I have just made a text file from which to paste them into a new contest but it would be good to be able to save them and re-import them for a contest.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. I guess the alternative is to start with a previous contest (last years) and modify it, but there is no Save-As facility so this would require a manual copy and rename of the contest file. How about a Save-As?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3. Also for first use, it would have been handy to have a floating window with a list of the important function keys. I have made a little word doc with the main ones and I wrote on the other ones like Alt-F9 and Alt-F10 that are pretty important when Wintest accidentally gets stuck at low CW speeds. And yes I do have equal numbers of "+" and "-" in the modified strings!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">73 Nick G4FAL</FONT>
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