Jim,
To my knowledge there is no central repository of Call History files for use
in WL as preset exchange files. In my experience the best option is to use
the adif file from the previous year's contest to prefill some parts of the
exchange for you. The limitations of this are you will only get prefills
for stations that you worked last contest, not the entire universe of calls
in the contest, and the ever present danger that the information may have
changed since last contest. People do move to new states or operate
portable from some other location. In NAQP parties ops have been known to
change the name they used from a previous year. So prefill exchanges have
both some benefits and some problems.
I've included a message from Kostas SV1DPI that came out just before the
IARU contest. He put together a file of all the IARU stations so that the
exchange could be prefilled with something other than the country of the
call. I downloaded it and put it the folder with my contest file prior to
the contest and a brief test showed it worked fine. Then, the next day when
the contest actually started, the file would no longer fill in the correct
information and the country was entered as normal. I still haven't figured
out why it worked once and then not again.
73,
Gary AL9A
To: writelog@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Iaru exchange file
From: Kostas Stamatis <sv1dpi@otenet.gr>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:12:44 +0300
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As Gert , PA3AAVnoted there was a mistake because of my fat fingers, so
pj2hq is verona and not vrona. I updated both files...
73 Kostas sv1dpi
> I prepared a file with exchanges from iaru station for my own use.
> this is from several infos found in internet.
> If you want to use it, download and save this file
> http://users.otenet.gr/~sv1dpi/download/iaru.adi
> If your browser open it, select all, copy (ctrl+C), open a notepad file
> and paste all there. Save the file as iaru.adi
> Otherwise do the same with the zip file
> http://users.otenet.gr/~sv1dpi/download/iaru.zip
> Unzip and save it.
> Then go to tools>preset exchange from adi file
> then choose the iaru.adi file where you have saved it.
> Now when you enter for example sx0hq you will get instead of 28, raag
> which is the right exchange.
> 73 Kostas SV1DPI
>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim N7US" <n7us@arrl.net>
To: "Writelog Reflector" <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: July 24, 2012 11:37 AM
Subject: [WriteLog] Preset Exchange Files
>I know there are Call History Files for N1MM available on the web,
>including
> on the Yahoo Group web site. I haven't found any equivalent files (i.e.,
> preset exchange files) for various contests for Writelog. Is anyone aware
> of any or are WL users constructing their own?
>
>
>
> 73, Jim N7US
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