I beg to differ with whatever input you've received John. A modern, powerful windows pc is a great investment for ~$1K. It's not going to crash during a contest, running any of the top Windows contest loggers and will give you loads of enjoyment the other 95% of the time.
73, Barry N1EU JOHN LAWRENCE wrote: > > I'm a return veteran contester with lots of wins using the old pencil log > with a dupe sheet. > > I've tried various new programs attempting to gain a level of comfort so I > might consider a serious entry into some contesting again. You should > appreciate that I'd hate to feel the pain of getting part way into the > contest and be delayed or loose my logs due to a computer freeze, lock out > or reboot. > > For the past year I've been soliciting "contest guru" opinions and come > away with conclusions based on inputs of the long term contersters from my > past more active years. My conclusion has nothing to do with the > suitability of the wonderful K3 as a radio for CW or SSB contesting. > > I'd use a basic mission critical PC with a 386/486 processor, DOS and CT > to run the logging process without connection to the Internet during the > contest. CT runs with the K3. The more recent contesting software might be > ok but Windows is buggy and may crash during the event. > > Lets hope System 7 can be configured to offer mission critical reliability > in the new PC platforms. > > Lastly, I find this to be mostly an off Elecraft topic. > > Happy New Year > > 73, > John, W1QS > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Contesting-with-logging-software-on-a-PC-not-MAC-tp4262951p4263502.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
