At 08:09 PM 6/30/2003 -0500, FireBrick wrote: >As an ardent DXB supporter, I would be the first to say that if your serious >about a contest... >Use a contesting program.
I am not serious about contesting. I occasionally operate FD and that's all I ever submit for. If the contest mode isn't going to function reliably, then why put it in? > >The little contest feature in DXB is really for the casual person who hears >something in a contest he needs for a country/state/iota/whatever and needs >to give a report. But then, is he worried about dupes? Hell, he can just let the real contester on the other end worry about it. >You don't use a Cadillac to haul gravel. Oh, I dunno.... In my youth, I worked in my dad's automotive machine shop. There was a rich Chinese farmer who would bring in oily, cruddy tractor engine parts, in the trunk of his Caddy.

