I guess you can tell MMTTY is not high on my list of things to do! The reason is that digital mode programs focus on doing a great job with digital qsos and have more time to make it great than I do. You will notice however that their log capabilities are not that great (and that is the focus I have for DXBase).
The philosophy of how do to these things is a bit different depending on who you buy. DXLabs breaks everything down into a separate program and depends on interprogram communications to work together. Others make one program do as much as it can. My personal philosophy is that DXBase is a logging/qsl management/awards tracking/station automation program. My objectives, towards making DXBase the loggingf program is: 1. Free up your time to make qsos by simplifying as many tasks as possible so you do not spend time trying to make your program run at its optimum, 2. Eliminate errors and losing contacts by interfacing with intelligent items in the shack that ensure that you can grab that contact as quickly as possible and record the information for you 3. Increase your interest in the hobby by offering more awards tracking and submission automation 4. Enhance your operating experience by staying current with the latest technology so that DXBase looks attractive and integrates into the operating environment you choose 5. Focus on customer satisfaction and listen to your desires by dialog and communications 6. If its not part of objectives 1-5, stay away from it, at least for DXBase. I will be offering other products though! I am not going to be crazy about this, you guys are my customers and I do believe that the customer is always right, but I have to look at all of you as my customer and figure out what the collective you wants. If I decide I am not the right person to make you happy, I will hand DXBase off to the next person (whose philosophy might be different). But its only fair you know where I see DXBase fitting and the direction I will be taking it. If I think it would be better to have a task done by a separate program and integrating it with DXBase similar to what DXLabs does, thats what I am going to do. I can already tell you thats the direction I am going with the new DXCluster interface. If I think functions should be part of the program and not a separate program (I am leaning towards believing all of the various log import functions should be part of DXBase and not separate programs, for instance), I will add them to DXBase. BTW, before I create any hard feelings, I didn't mean to make any comment on DX4WIN, Paul is a friend, Steve Bookout is a very close friend of mine (even though he isn't associated with DX4WIN it was his baby with Paul for quite a while) and I have a lot of respect for what they have done with that program. I can honestly say its a very good program and there is room for all of us in the logging business. I was just using its MMTTY functionality as an example. Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.dxbase.com www.abrohamnealsoftware.com www.sdrsystems.com (540) 242 0911 Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ DX Cluster: dxc.k3nc.com port 23 On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:42 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > Neal -- for what it is worth...there are a lot of folks who are hoping that > DXBase WILL add MMTTY from within the program.... > > 73 de Greg-N4CC > > > > *On Thu Oct 29 14:49 , Neal Campbell sent: > > * > > I only read that you asked a question! > > Beats me, maybe they read the list of improvements and didn't see anything > worth the upgrade price. I can understand in fact. After you cover the > basics, its sometimes hard to get excited about a bunch of new stuff you > will never use (when DX4WIN added MMTTY from within the program I yawned so > much I could hardly stay awake!) > > I also think some of them were not active in the hobby when 2007 came out > and have just gotten interested again and are now waiting for 2010. > > You don't ever have to worry about me reading anything sinister or negative > in any of your email missives! As I have said before, I really do not have > a temper, especially about this stuff. If I don't like a customer, I will > refund their money and they will never hear from me again. > > 3 weeks ago I woke up at 9am (sri, us retired guys can sleep pretty late!) > and checked my mail and there is one entitled "Where is my g*ddamn > software" > (no lie). I figured someone ordered something that I had let slide thru the > cracks so I cautiously opened it. Turned out this guy in Maryland ordered > DXBase at 405am and the email was threatening to raise a conflict with > Paypal and report me to the Better Business Bureau because he did not have > his registration code five hours later! So I wrote him back, telling him I > had refunded his money and sri that I was asleep at 405am. He wrote back > that it was unacceptable to have a 1 person company and pretend like I was > a > global business (??) and that only mere mortals slept anymore (that is a > quote). I responded with a "Thanks for considering DXBase" and added him to > my blacklist for the trash and that was it. I suspect the guy is either a > substance abuser or needs some meds but it seemed sad/funny instead of > making me mad. I figured it was the best refund I had ever made of > someone's > money. > > But, I find people very smart and helpful and prefer to expect the best out > of them rather than the worst (and I am seldom disappointed)! > > You are just the type of person I like, speak your mind, aren't mean or > self-centered and helping to get to a solution. When I was working, thats > the type of people I surrounded myself with, sometimes they would see me do > something stupid and tell me so (and they were always right!) > > > Neal Campbell > Abroham Neal Software > www.dxbase.com > www.abrohamnealsoftware.com > www.sdrsystems.com > (540) 242 0911 > > Amateur Radio: K3NC > Blog: > http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/<http://parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abrohamnealsoftware.com%2Fblog%2F> > DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] > Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ > > DX Cluster: dxc.k3nc.com port 23 > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Jim WA9YSD <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just curious. I do not mean anything about this question. Do not read any > > thing into it. > > > > Why are people still using DXbase 2006? > > > > Stay on course, fight a good fight, and keep the faith. 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