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[WriteLog] Re: WriteLog Digest, Vol 19, Issue 23

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Subject: [WriteLog] Re: WriteLog Digest, Vol 19, Issue 23
From: John and Mary Powell <zl1bhq@paradise.net.nz>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:18:00 +1200
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Did the same Jerry. However, the Time/Date drop down box in Control Panel ,
applicable for 0 hours UTC also includes other countries, including Great
Britain. At this time of the year Daylight Summer Time applies in the UK and
I assume that is the reason for the +1hour variance in our logging times
from WL
73
John Powell. ZL1BHQ
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>    1. RE: IARU problem (Scot Herrick)
>    2. RE: WANTED IC706MkiiG Service Manual, paper or CD (Nick Kail )
>    3. Points lost (Hal Kennedy)
>    4. Experiencing Time Logging Problem on version 1048F (Jerry Cater)
>    5. Re: Points lost (BobK8IA@aol.com)
>    6. Vhf transverter offsets (David Robinson)
>    7. RE: Points lost (Hal Kennedy)
>    8. UK-DX RTTY Module Not Scoring Correctly (Eric - VE3GSI)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 03:37:26 -0000
> From: "Scot Herrick" <scot@k9jy.com>
> Subject: RE: [WriteLog] IARU problem
> To: "'Marc Ressler'" <marc.ressler@verizon.net>,
> <writelog@contesting.com>
> Message-ID: <20040711233730.GA42433@mail26g.sbc-webhosting.com>
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> >From the K9JY website:
>
> "Changing the Day/Time   Top of Page
>
> Sometimes our computers are off by an hour. Or a day. Here is a fast way
to
> modify the date and time on the QSO's.
>
>  1.      Select all of the QSO's in a given hour by clicking on the first
> and then, holding down the shift key, clicking on the last QSO for the
given
> hour. You will select all the Q's for the hour (00Z) as shown here:
>
> Next, double click on a highlighted QSO in the Time column. A little
dialog
> box will come up as shown below. Change the highlighted hour to your
correct
> time, and click OK:
>
> At this point, another dialog box opens asking to make the same change for
> the rest of the highlighted QSO's. Answer 'yes.'
>
> Once you select 'yes,' all the other highlighted QSO's (in my case, the
00Z
> ones) will change to the new hour placed into the time box.
>
> Note too that at your crossover point on the date, you can click on the
date
> in the highlighted QSO's as well and the same dialog box will work for the
> date. So if you had 100 QSO's in hour 23 of the first day that should
really
> be in the next day, you could change the time and then change the date
using
> the same process."
>
> You can see the screen shots under the "Post Contest" section of my web
site
> and click on 'Log Review.'
>
> Scot Herrick
> See K9JY's WriteLog User Support Site at:
> http://www.k9jy.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Marc Ressler
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 17:09
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: [WriteLog] IARU problem
>
> I notice that the score reported in the summary sheet differs from the
> cabrillo file by about 5000 points, while the number of QSOs is identical.
> Any thoughts?
>
> I probably wouldn't have noticed except that I had the time set wrong on
> the PC so that everything is off by 4 hours (PC was set for GMT - last
> minute stupidity), so I have been trying to come up with a simple way of
> fixing this problem. So far, I have exported a spreadsheet and corrected
> the time and dates there. Does anyone know of a way to import something
> other than ADIF back into WL? I do have a program that takes comma
> delimited files (which I can generate from Excel) and makes ADIF from them
> - but it requires columns in a certain order, and then I'm not sure what
WL
> will do with it. There are only 164 QSOs (limited time running QRP) so I'm
> wondering if all the effort in Excel will be worth it to generate ADIF, as
> I could just edit every time in the log instead.
>
> MarC, K3NCO
> marc.ressler@verizon.net
>
>
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 08:51:53 +0100
> From: "Nick Kail " <m3mlr@tiscali.co.uk>
> Subject: RE: [WriteLog] WANTED IC706MkiiG Service Manual, paper or CD
> To: "'Writelog'" <writelog@contesting.com>
> Cc: 'RTTY' <RTTY@contesting.com>
> Message-ID: <20040712075154.B01B2319594@dayton.akorn.net>
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>
>
> Try Http://www.mods.dk  you can find nearly any manual for any Tranceiver
> and sometimes other bits as well
>
> Cheers n beers
>
> Nick Kail G3VCP
> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Robert McGwier
> Sent: 11 July 2004 20:31
> To: Amsat-Bb; Writelog
> Cc: Qrp-L; RTTY
> Subject: [WriteLog] WANTED IC706MkiiG Service Manual, paper or CD
>
> Let's negotiate.
>
> Bob
> N4HY
>
>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 08:44:25 -0400
> From: "Hal Kennedy" <halken@comcast.net>
> Subject: [WriteLog] Points lost
> To: <writelog@contesting.com>
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>
> This happens because, if you have not told Writelog what zone you are in,
it
> seems to make an assumption that results in mis-scoring if you are
operating
> from the US.  During the contest, Writelog scored all my US QSOs as 3
> points.  When I ordered up the Cabrillo report Writelog asked me for my
> zone - which is in the US.  The program then went back and rescored all my
> US QSOs as 1 point, as they should be.
> Perhaps, when the IARU module is next fixed so the 10 minute timer counts
10
> minutes instead of 60, a prompt could be added at launch, asking for your
> zone?
> N4GG
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 21:17:23 -0400
> From: "Jerry Cater" <jerrycater@earthlink.net>
> Subject: [WriteLog] Experiencing Time Logging Problem on version 1048F
> To: <writelog@contesting.com>
> Message-ID: <002a01c467ad$fca484e0$0200a8c0@gatewaycompute>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> During the IARU contest this weekend, I realized the time was incorrect in
> the log.  I verified my pc time was correct, but the log time was off by
an
> hour.  I read the other time issues listed in the archives, but none of
them
> corrected the issue.
>
> I am running Windows XP Professional and WriteLog v10.48F.
>
> Since I am in NC, my computer is setup to use "(GMT -5:00) Eastern Time
(US
> and Canada)".  As I entered my first QSO at 10:47, it listed my time as
> 14:47UTC.  Even after I unchecked the "Automatically adjust clock for
> daylight savings time", the test entry I made was still 1 hour off.
>
> As a quick correction so I could continue the contest, I forwarded my time
> by 1 hour and all subsequent entries were correct.
>
> It seems like WriteLog is ignoring the time zone setting for Eastern Time.
>
> Anyone have any ideas what I can do to correct the time issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Jerry Cater  KI4CCJ
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:13:23 EDT
> From: BobK8IA@aol.com
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Points lost
> To: halken@comcast.net, writelog@contesting.com
> Message-ID: <f7.3cde03c7.2e23e873@aol.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
> In a message dated 7/12/04 5:42:52 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
> halken@comcast.net writes:
> This happens because, if you have not told Writelog what zone you are in,
it
> seems to make an assumption that results in mis-scoring if you are
operating
> from the US.  During the contest, Writelog scored all my US QSOs as 3
> points.  When I ordered up the Cabrillo report Writelog asked me for my
> zone - which is in the US.  The program then went back and rescored all my
> US QSOs as 1 point, as they should be.
> Perhaps, when the IARU module is next fixed so the 10 minute timer counts
10
> minutes instead of 60, a prompt could be added at launch, asking for your
> zone?
> N4GG
>
>
> Look again and make sure its NOT scoring ALL your USA qso's as 1 point. It
> should score only those stations in your same ITU zone as one pointers.
>
>
> 73, Bob K8IA
> in the shadow of the Superstition Mtns
> Arizona USA
> http://www.members.aol.com/bobk8ia/index.htm
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:25:10 -0400
> From: "David Robinson" <robinda@nortelnetworks.com>
> Subject: [WriteLog] Vhf transverter offsets
> To: "'writelog@contesting.com'" <writelog@contesting.com>
> Message-ID:
> <591B780D9676844E8A704B5B013FFE920B2B82@zrc2hxm1.corp.nortel.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> Could someone else confirm if the transverter offsets still work in
10.46g?
>
> I  set a 22MHz offset on com 1 and connected it to the TS850 radio. With
the
> radio showing 28.200 cw on VFOA I type in 50125 and click USB in the
> "logging/duping frequency" box. Hitting enter, 50125 shows briefly in the
> radio frequency box on writelog, the radio mode changes to USB, but then
the
> frequency box and the radio both show 28.200
>
> In desperation I regressed to installing 10.44E and it worked as expected
in
> that version. Has something broken along the upgrade path?
>
> Dave
>
> WW2R
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:51:16 -0400
> From: "Hal Kennedy" <halken@comcast.net>
> Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Points lost
> To: <BobK8IA@aol.com>
> Cc: writelog@contesting.com
> Message-ID: <DIEKJGMGNKNFKBLFAPMOAENDCNAA.halken@comcast.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Bob and Writelog are correct - Writelog scores properly for US Qs (1 point
> for your zone, 3 points for others) once it knows what zone you are in.
> N4GG
>
>   /snip/
>
>   Look again and make sure its NOT scoring ALL your USA qso's as 1 point.
It
> should score only those stations in your same ITU zone as one pointers.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:40:51 -0400
> From: "Eric - VE3GSI" <ve3gsi@sympatico.ca>
> Subject: [WriteLog] UK-DX RTTY Module Not Scoring Correctly
> To: "WriteLog e-Group" <writelog@contesting.com>
> Message-ID: <002801c4681e$3add0f50$9400a8c0@FINI>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
> It looks like the UK-DX module is not scoring correctly.  Hopefully the
> correct score will be calculated from the Cabrillo file sent to the
> Sponsors.
>
> I have dropped Steve, N9OH a note to let him know.
>
> 73 Eric - VE3GSI
>
>
>
>
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