After all these years, I finally downloaded N1MM Logger and spent some time with it today. Even logged a few contacts during the ARRL June VHF Contest. Previously, I could not get it work with Vista. The web site might even lead to believe that it may not be supported on Vista. But after doing a search on Vista + N1MM, I found a detailed tutorial from Bob, W1QA, that showed that I was mostly doing things correctly ... except for one little security procedure that I have never had to do with any other program and would never have figured out on my own, HI. And it turns out that the program is not as complicated as I had thought. In fact, the interface can be kept quite simple for the entry window.
From what I understand, N1MM requires either MMTTY or MMVARI if you wish to interface via a soundcard for RTTY and some digital modes. Apparently, other digital sound card programs, such as fldigi, can not work with this logger as it is tailored to the MM programs. I am not sure that there are any cross platform contest logging programs so it means you almost have to stay with MS Windows, especially for what I would consider to be ultra high end programs such as N1MM. Can anyone give us a comparison of MMTTY and MMVARI? I understand that Dave, AA6YQ, has been able to update MMTTY. But then I have read that some hams have found MMVARI to decode better under some conditions. And I get the impression that only MMTTY will be updated with MMVARI "frozen" in beta (but a pretty darn good beta from past experience). Also, does anyone have some first hand experiences with how the HRD Logging program will work as a contest logger compared with N1MM? Lots of questions, but I bet some of you have the answers, HI. 73, Rick, KV9U
