At 03:20 PM 11/19/02 -0500, you wrote: >hrello to all > >I ear from numbers of users talking about CT CONTEST program >it seems they have almost all contest......? >but it is expensive and before to order it I want to know if it is >possible to run it with windows ( XP )......? > >in that windows XP there is no DOS section......! > >wising to ear from members >
The basic answer is no. The two longest-standing and most widely used contest programs, CT and TR, are both DOS programs that rely on direct access to the hardware for many things, including CW keying and rig control. For that reason they need real DOS to work, not an emulator like XP. Writelog is an excellent Windows logging program -- Writelog in particular. N1MM has written a freeware Windows logging program -- see http://pages.cthome.net/n1mm/. There is a reflector, [EMAIL PROTECTED], where this subject has been discussed for a long time. To access the archive, go to www.contesting.com and look in the left margin for a field called "list search." Enter the words XP and CT and ct-user, press [Enter] and the archive will show you many messages on this subject. The most elegant solution (from that reflector) is to create a small DOS partition with Partition Magic and then load it with DOS 6.22 or 7.0 and CT or TR. 73, Pete N4ZR Sometimes a tower is just a tower
