Having admitted to SCPing, K5ZD then wrote:
I find SCP to be an extremely useful tool but not a substitute to actually
being able to copy/hear stations. I would love to create my own SCP
database like Brett has. Does anyone have software for doing this easily?
ASCII in and .dta out?
After about 1500 Qs as VS6UP, I wrote my own non-real-time logging program
to deal with (dare I mention it) QSLs & everything worked since has been
bunged into it. Massaging that & various CT .RES files was done either
manually from the dot prompt of a very old version of dBase or with routines
I've thrown together with Clipper (turns dBase program files into
stand-alone
executables). Those then imported nicely into the best darn real-time
logging program (IMHO) written by N6TR. The process is even simpler if
your raw logs are all ASCII, as TR's import routine is quite flexible - it
was my older logs in dBase III which required the gymnastics.
I'm not in any sense a programmer, so anyone could do it (maybe even a
phone person ;^). The key is what your real-time database needs to chew on
& then just figure out how to get there - I'd imagine you have everything
you need already (provided WriteLog [I think that's what you're using for
real-time, Randy] has something similar to Tree's TRMASTER.DTA).
73, VR2BrettGraham
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