Forgot to mention that if you received a report other than 599, then your
age will not be added to that line so you will have to do that manually. It
will stick out like a sore thumb and won't be hard to find.
I received two 559 reports (must have been on the barefoot radio - hi hi).
73, Don AA5AU
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au@bellsouth.net>
To: "Andrew J. O'Brien" <obrienaj@netsync.net>; <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 10:10 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] Jarts Log Submission - SOLVED
> Andy, KB2EOQ, has provided us with, IMHO, the easiest solution
> and that is to use the "find and replace" feature in Wordpad.
>
> 1. Save WriteLog file as "ASCII per band".
> 2. Open the ASCII file you just created in Wordpad (if you don't know how
> to open Wordpad, just hit the Start button and go to Run and type in
> "wordpad".
> 3. Go to the Edit pull-down menu and select "Replace...".
> 4. In the "Find what:" entry box type 599 599
> 5. In the "Replace with:" entry box type 599 XX 599 where XX is your age
> like 599 44 599
> 6. Click on the "Replace All" button and it will put your age between the
> two 599 reports
> throughout the entire file.
> 7. Save the file.
> 8. Now either highlight and delete contacts for 40, 20, 15 & 10 meters and
> save as a text
> file called YOURCALLSIGN.80 or cut and paste as a new file for each band.
> Doing the
> same for each band.
> 9. That should do it. Pretty simple stuff really if you are a Windows
> cleaner.
>
> But let me reiterate what I said before. I seriously doubt the JARTS contest
> manager
> will disqualify anyone for not putting your age in the log for each contact.
> They
> haven't in earlier years.
>
> I'm going to do it because, well actually it's already done, and because I
> got busted
> in WPX RTTY a few years ago for not putting my "off-times" in the log even
> though
> I had put them on my Summary Sheet and it cost me the NA win. Afterall,
> rules are rules.
>
> This should be fixed within WriteLog though. I guess it would be easiest if
> everyone
> used Cabrillo format. But they don't, so maybe Wayne will take it upon
> himself to
> include the ability to create seperate band files for those contests like
> JARTS and ANARTS.
> I know there is at least one contest that he supports the separate logs for
> each band
> for but I can't remember which one.
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew J. O'Brien" <obrienaj@netsync.net>
> To: <writelog@contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 6:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Jarts Log Submission - PROBLEM
>
>
> >
> > > You are correct. As Tom, WX4TM, also alerted me to the fact that
> > > the rules state AGE sent as well as received.
> > > there is another way around it if you own WT4I Cabrillo tools.
> > >
> > > 1. Save WriteLog file as "ASCII per band".
> > > 2. Convert that file to Cabrillo using WT4I converter.
> > > 3. Cut and paste the appropriate contacts in to CALLSIGN.80, CALLSIGN.40,
> > etc. files
> > >
> >
> >
> > In other contests I have used the find and replace features of Excel to some
> > success, also the same feature in Microsoft Wordpad. Save the Writelog file
> > as a WK spreadsheet, import it into Excel. Under the Sent field where it
> > says 599 tell it to replace 599 with 599-50 (or whatever your age is). Then
> > save it in a format required by JARTS (ASCII or whatever)
> >
> > Andy KB2EOQ
> >
> >
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