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RE: [WriteLog] More QTC Improvements

To: <Georgek5kg@aol.com>, <geo@spidernet.com.cy>
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] More QTC Improvements
From: "Don Cassel" <doncassel@compuserve.com>
Reply-to: doncassel@compuserve.com
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:29:52 -0400
List-post: <mailto:writelog@contesting.com>
To view the number of unsent QTCs just look at the summary window. It tells
you the number of QSO and QTCs sent.

Don VE3XD

> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Georgek5kg@aol.com
> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 11:41 AM
> To: geo@spidernet.com.cy
> Cc: writelog@contesting.com; contest@arrl.org
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] More QTC Improvements
>
>
>
> In a message dated 8/23/2003 9:53:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> geo@spidernet.com.cy writes:
>
> > This feature is already there!
> > No need to count, just key in the call and immediately it tells
> you if he is
> > good for some more QTCs and just how many he is due. This is at
> the RH side
> > of the entry window (in red).
> > In general if someone calls me for QTCs I will send him some if
> there are 5
> > or more, less than 5 is not worth it.
> > Waiting till 10 can work against you. I once had 100 unsent
> QTCs at the end
> > of the contest as towards the end, all the guys I asked to take
> them from me
> > refused. Better to get them away in small batches than not at all.
> >
>
> George,
>
> Tnx for the note.  For sure, you are correct. Once a call is
> keyed into the
> log entry line, it does display the number of QTCs that can be
> sent to that
> station.  The problem I have it that I would like to know the
> total number of
> unsent QTCs WITHOUT having to key in the call sign.  That is what
> is needed, in
> my opinion.
>
> I agree that you don't want to be left with a large collection of
> unsent QTCs
> at the end of the contest.  Throughout the contest, I send QTCs
> in units of
> 10 each. In the last 20 or 30 minutes of the contest, however, I
> am careful to
> not accumulate too many.  During that period, I will send smaller
> batches.  In
> this last event, I ended up with only 2 or 3 unsent.
>
> 73, Geo...
>
> George I. Wagner, K5KG
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