-----Original Message----- 
From: David W Wood
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 1:50 PM
To: 'Lloyd Rasmussen'
Subject: RE: Logging software programs

Lloyd

A small correction, I used Wintest in 2012 for the Titanic commemoration
station in the home town of Jack Phillips who was one of the radio operators
on the ship.
Being the station in focus, it was purely a case of banging in the call and
pressing the enter key.
On this basis I peaked rates of over 200 per hour on several occasions.

I have never got on with the windows version of TR, nor N3FJP for
contesting, but I am considering Scott's program for day to day logging.

73

David W Wood

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Lloyd Rasmussen
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 4:59 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Logging software programs

    N1MM+ is free, and supports more than 200 contests.  In the contest club

I am in, Potomac Valley Radio Club, I think a lot more people are using it
than AC Log, even though the developer is here in Maryland.  Of the people
who operated in the WRTC (World Radiosport Team Championships) last summer,
a majority were using Wintest, with N1MM somewhat behind.  Nobody has had
the time to work with Wintest for accessibility, although David used it in a

high-speed operation last summer.
K4LTA, an active blind contester and DXer from Tennessee uses TR4Win, the
successor of TR for DOS.
From what I have read on this list, Scott Davis, N3FJP, has probably done
the most to produce a blind-friendly logging program.
Fortunately there are many ways to skin a cat, and some of us enjoy figuring

out how far we can go with off-the-shelf software.  That's the beauty of ham

radio..
For your second question, if you can get into the column at all, I would try

the context menu key and see if it gives you an option you can use.  Good
programs have a lot of context-menu options which change depending on the
location of your cursor or mouse pointer, and some of these options are
quite hard to find in the menu system or help files.
73,
Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message----- 
From: Dr. Ronald E. Milliman]\\`
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 11:35 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Logging software programs

I have two questions:

1. Why are any of you using the N1MM software as opposed to the N3FJP
software? Is it simply a matter that some people like Elecraft and others
like Kenwood, or is there more to it than simply brand preference?

2. I am using Scott's AC Log Program, N3FJP, and when I plug the
information into a xlsx spreadsheet, the date/time column data does not show
up; I was told it is because the column is too narrow, and if I make the
column for this data wider, it will show up just fine. I do not use the xlsx
spreadsheet program enough to remember how to make the column wider. Can
someone here tell me how to do this? Also, related to this, has anyone else
here run into this same problem, and if so, does making the column wider fix
it?

Ron, K8HSY