All,
I just dug out of my desk drawer, my old ruler that I made from two sheets
of plastic and a piece of line printer paper with each column printed in,
that I used to use to count columns. Hi. Know I was saving it for some
future use. Hams are such wonderful junk collectors.
Know to run a few more logs thru it and see
Jerry, W6IHG
At 07:57 PM 7/26/2002 +0000, Randy Thompson, K5ZD wrote:
>I now realize that people misunderstood what I meant when I used the word
>column for the time offset.
>
>It is really the number of characters to the first digit of the time. So if
>you have a file that looks like this:
>
>21029 CW 2002-04-29 0247 K5ZD 599 WOR-MA K1KI 599 MA
>21029 CW 2002-04-29 0248 K5ZD 599 WOR-MA W1YK 599 WORMA
>21029 CW 2002-04-29 0248 K5ZD 599 WOR-MA W1XX 599 WOR
>21029 CW 2002-04-29 0248 K5ZD 599 WOR-MA W3BGN 599 PA
> ^^^^
>
>The time offset is 20.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>Randy
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jerry Pixton [mailto:jpixton@shentel.net]
> > Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 14:43 PM
> > To: Randy Thompson, K5ZD; cwman@juno.com; WRITELOG@contesting.com
> > Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Determining Best Rate/Hour
> >
> >
> > Randy, et al
> >
> > Help
> >
> > Downloaded this nice utility. Tried to run it against naqp log
> > after saving
> > per your suggestion as ASCII. Time is in column 3 (Sequence,
> > Date, Time) so
> > I enter "2" on the command line per readme file. First problem,
> > you have to
> > use short DOS-like file names (less than 8 characters). OK, get
> > the program
> > to run, copies file lines to output file BUT rate counters are all ZERO.
> >
> > Did any one get this to work recently? What am I not doing?
> >
> >
> > Jerry, W6IHG
> >
> >
> >
> > At 11:39 AM 7/22/2002 +0000, Randy Thompson, K5ZD wrote:
> > >There is a program called qrate that will calculate this for
> > you. You can
> > >find it at http://www.k1ea.com/utilities/index.htm (about half
> > way down the
> > >page). When you run qrate.exe it will expand into several files - one of
> > >them is rate.exe.
> > >
> > >It needs a flat ASCII file of your log with the info in columns. You can
> > >generate this by going into WL and doing a Save As "ASCII with
> > no formatting
> > >by time."
> > >
> > >Run rate.exe (it has some command line switches that need to be
> > specified).
> > >Mine looked like this:
> > >
> > >rate junk.txt dump.txt 8
> > >
> > >where junk.txt is the name of my ASCII file, dump.txt is a file for the
> > >results, and 8 is the column the 4-digit time is in.
> > >
> > >The output is pretty cool in that you can immediately see your
> > best minute,
> > >best 10 minutes, and best hour of rate. Always good for bragging!
> > >
> > >Randy, K5ZD
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> > > > [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of cwman@juno.com
> > > > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 02:22 AM
> > > > To: WRITELOG@contesting.com
> > > > Subject: Fw:[WriteLog] Determining Best Rate/Hour
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks to those who have responded regarding the breakdown report.
> > > >
> > > > To clarify, I'm looking for the highest rates for each time
> > > > frame. These rates will not necessarily occur from the top of
> > > > one hour to the top of the next as reported by breakdown.
> > > >
> > > > 73,
> > > >
> > > > Fred/NA2U/J79MM
> > > >
> > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> > > >
> > > > From: cwman@juno.com
> > > > To: WRITELOG@contesting.com
> > > > Subject: [WriteLog] Determining Best Rate/Hour
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
> > > > Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:42:07 GMT
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to find the best rate per hour in a log from my recent
> > > > J7 trip. I think the Writelog file can be converted so that
> > > > "Rate" can be run on it to show the best minute, best 10 minutes
> > > > and best hour but I do not know to accomplish this. If anyone
> > > > can provide instructions on how to do this I would appreciate it.
> > > >
> > > > 73 and thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Fred/NA2U/J79MM
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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