On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 05:10:34PM -0700, Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
> What form would you like to use for QTH? lat/lon, just the city
> and country, grid square, ??? I would think it would be best to allow
> any or all of these but not to require them.
I like just a text field for city name (or perhaps city name + other
info like "Blah Blah 30km W of So-and-So", plus grid square in a
separate field (required for VHF+).
> Typically in this kind of situation I would provide a drop-down list
> on the form with all the known choices so far, and the last choice
> is "other", and there is an adjacent text field to type in a new one.
> After that it becomes one of the choices so you never have to type it
> again.
Sounds excellent.
> Cool. And maybe the type of radio, antenna, elevation, tower height,
> direction the antenna is pointed if it's directional, ... or is a
> plain comment field enough for all this?
I personally don't tend to log those details at all; when I do,
the comment field is enough. But since I'm fussy about a lot of
other fields, there could be people fussy about these ones too.
> > Contesting? Difficult to build a program that does both contesting
> > and casual logging well I think.
>
> Yeah. If you're in a hurry then maybe web forms are not as efficient
> as a conventional GUI. But what else is different?
You need auto-incrementing serial numbers for some contests. Co-ordinated
between operators in multi-operator stations. Nothing else is different
for entry, but more reports are needed.
Thanks Shawn, I'll have a look at your web site.
Hamish
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