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[WriteLog] FW: Translate Letters to Numbers?

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Subject: [WriteLog] FW: Translate Letters to Numbers?
From: "J. Edward \(Ed\) Muns" <w0yk@msn.com>
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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:56:28 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Edward (Ed) Muns [mailto:w0yk@msn.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 1:33 AM
> To: 'David Fisher'
> Cc: 'writelog@contesting.com'
> Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Translate Letters to Numbers?
> 
> > One of my contacts in the WPX test printed  letters instead of numbers
> on
> > my
> > receive. Does WL  have a converter similar to the old WF1B software ?  I
> > used to have to have a sheet showing the letter to number translation
> but
> > can't find it. Anyone know whats available in WL or elsewhere?
> 
> This happened very often to me this weekend (letters instead of serial
> numbers).  All you have to do is move the mouse cursor to the first letter
> of the group, and hold Shift down when left click it into the Serial
> Number field of the Entry Window.  Each letter is converted to the
> corresponding number in the Entry Window, based on the assumption that the
> only error was the number-shift being lost in reception.  Very slick, very
> quick.  You do have to determine if the resulting number makes sense, but
> if you get two or more groups of letters that are identical, then it is a
> safe bet.
> 
> 73,
> Ed - P49X (W0YK)
> 
> P.S.  Thanks for the QSOs!!

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