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<DIV>...and I was hoping to participate in the "Worked All
Left-Handed Serbian Train Conductors QSO Party"!</DIV>
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<DIV> Ron
N6IE<BR> <A
href="http://www.N6IE.com">www.N6IE.com</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=stefan@fam-pfeiffer.de href="mailto:stefan@fam-pfeiffer.de">Stefan
Pfeiffer</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=support@win-test.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:19
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [WT-support] Putting the
contest compilation out in thecommunity?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hello!<BR><BR>Being a programmer myself, i want to give you my
opinion on that point. Although i would not mind if it would be included in
Win-Test, i doubt i will be. It might be easy to integrate a certain number of
"Building blocks" strung together by a config-file, thus covering a good chunk
of the contests out there. But no one knows what "building blocks" are needed
tomorrow. There are so many contests with so many (obscure) rules out there,
that are difficult to capture in a standardized way. Just take WAE with its
QTC-system, for example. How to code that into a "config file"? You still have
to let Win-Test be aware of "QTC-style" contests, let them be parameterized as
you wish. This example might be "too trivial", as WAE is a "big" contest, but
there is similar stuff in 100s of smaller contests we never heard of, from
obscure exchanges to bonus points for working some special kind of station, or
your ability to form a keyword or sentence out the first letter of the name of
each station worked, instantly doubling your score.<BR><BR>Such rules out of
the usual "qsopoints times mults = score" system can only be captured with
some kind of script interpreting or incorporating compiled code like DLLs, not
just "setup files". But - Win-Test v4 will incorporate Lua-scripting-support,
perhaps one can use Lua to describe the rules of the "1296MHz All-Monaco
RTTY-Sprint-Party for YLs". We will see :-).<BR><BR>Vy 73 es 55 de Stefan,
DL1ELY (luckily eligible for an free update to v4)<BR><BR><BR>
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