Think there was another similar thing with a VHF band.
WL, as Randy explained, apparently does not do exact frequency checks to
determine band i.e. it may say if freq is less than 21000 and greater than
7250, then it is 20 M. Hope I remember that correctly.
----- Original Message -----
From: WA9ALS - John <jfleming@shelbynet.net>
To: <Writelog@contesting.com>; <dx4win@qth.net>
Sent: March 06, 2000 2:09 AM
Subject: [WriteLog] ADIF and the FO0
>
> A bad thing happened, and I think I'm outa luck, but here's a convoluted
> question, if you're up for it:
>
> 1. I worked FO0AAA on RTTY before the contest sometime, I think on 15M,
> and I logged it as usual with DX4WIN.
>
> 2. Friday night I played around in the contest just using DX4WIN and
> it's packet spotting features, and during that session I found and
> logged the FO0 on 17M. All together I logged 22 Q's Friday night.
> (Just messing around, remember?)
>
> 3. Then Saturday I wanted to have more fun, and I wanted to use
> Writelog, so I manually logged the 22 Friday QSO's into Writelog. It
> took the FO0AAA on a freq of 18 MHz, but marked it with a red "B".
>
> 4. I worked the FO0 again today on 10M SSB. So now I have him on RTTY,
> and then on 17 and 10 SSB.
>
> 5. Then tonight I did an ADIF export from Writelog, and then I imported
> that ADIF file into DX4WIN.
>
> 6. Confounding findings:
>
> - The Writelog ADIF export shows the 17M contact on a freq of 18 MHz,
> but a band of 20M! (It shows up this way BOTH in the actual ADIF file
> AND in DX4WIN. In other words, DX4WIN imported it properly, but the
> ADIF file is incorrect as exported by Writelog.
>
> - WORSE, my RTTY contact with the FO0 has disappeared altogether! There
> were no warnings or questions during the import. For duplicate QSOs,
> which there shouldn't have been any, the DX4WIN import was set to "ISSUE
> WARNING AND STOP".
>
> For the DX4WIN users: Why did the FO0AAA QSO disappear when the SSB Q's
> were imported?
>
> For the Writelog users: Why did it log an 18 MHz contact as 20M? I
> realize this is stretching the program a little, since 17M wasn't in the
> contest. I guess Writelog figured I *MUST* have meant 20M. HI
>
> No, I don't have a backup file with the RTTY Q in it, ie I didn't backup
> after I worked him on RTTY!
>
> SRI bandwidth - If you got this far, THANKS!
>
> WA9ALS - John jfleming@shelbynet.net
> http://www.qsl.net/wa9als
>
>
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