I used WriteLog in the ARRL SS Phone contest this weekend and it worked
flawlessly ... until the final hour. Then, something glitched and it
wouldn't let me enter info. I saved the file and rebooted the computer.
Everything looked okay when it came back up, and it let me enter info, as
before. However, each of the last 36 QSOs that I logged had a sequence
number that looked like this "1308B". The "B" was in red. And I noticed
that it was no longer incrementing either the band total or the score total.
I finished the contest, saved everything and found that the Cabrillo log
file had all the information. The only thing wrong (of course) was the
claimed score, which I manually edited. I'd like to go back into the log and
have those last 36 QSOs calculated into the score and the band total. I
realized that when I first rebooted, the log had defaulted to the 1800 KHz
band and I didn't notice that. So, I edited the first post-glitch QSO and
changed the frequency to 21000 KHz, and did the same for the log, itself. I
thought that licked the problem...but it didn't. The subsequent 35 QSOs
still continued to carry that ominous red "B" and were not counted. Can
anyone clue me in on what I need to do to rectify the situation? I will file
the Cabrillo log with the ARRL, with the edited claimed score, so that's no
problem, but I'd like to know what happened and how to correct it in the
future. Thanks in advance.
Rob K6RB
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