But doesn't a Question Mark pop up if you forget to enter something? That
should alert you that something is not right?????
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Reisert" <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Lost multiplier in RTTY RU
> At 10:17 AM 1/7/2002 -0500, Ron Kenwood W3ZV wrote:
>
> >I lost a mult due entirely to my own carelessness. I failed to enter a
> >serial number. Dumb, I know. Won't cost me the top spot. But I feel that
I
> >should be protected from that kind of dumb trick. A "Required Field
Missing"
> >message would be great for those of us who are contest challenged.
>
> I agree also. I forgot to enter the S/N for my 2nd QSO with ZF2NT. When
I
> realized it, the number had long since scrolled off the screen. I also
> forgot to enter a state for some W9 but caught it in time. If I had been
> more serious in the contest, I probably would not have made these
mistakes.
>
> I ran Writelog 10.28 with Windows XP Pro and MMTTY 1.62. Except for a
> couple of times when the software transmitted a solid carrier for several
> seconds before the FSK tones started, I had no problems with
> Writelog/MMTTY/WinXP in 155 QSOs, even though I kept DX4WIN open and had
> another background job running that consumed all spare idle cycles.
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
>
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>
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